Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has taken on a project called

"towards excellence." It is an educational quality indicators project. The goal of this project is to provide information for the system as a whole in two key areas; areas such as student learning and also in the effectiveness and efficiency of the system in supporting student learning.

Yes, Mr. Speaker, the department has a program in which it is evaluating how successful the system is, and it's called the "educational quality indicators project."