Its
purpose was to promote the
usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their
performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»