Eagle County Schools is committed to sustaining its performance-based compensation efforts, along with new opportunities made possible by the grant award, long after the five-year grant period ends.  In fact, careful financial analysis confirming our commitment to sustaining these efforts was a key component of our grant application.  We will continue to make financial incentives available to teachers who increase student achievement through existing general operating dollars, new operating dollars made available each year through the Colorado School Finance Act, and through the use of General Fund reserve dollars for one-time annual bonuses.