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One of the primary goals of the education system is to promote student achievement. Given the impact teachers have on student outcomes, maintaining high-quality instructors should be a top priority for California school districts. Professional development and dismissal practices are intended to improve teacher quality but, as the results of our previous policy briefs demonstrated, a majority of principals view development programs as ineffective and the dismissal process as overly difficult.