Dixon High School did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2012. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes AYP if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of Illinois in terms of student performance and other accountability measures. 

Dixon’s school teachers are highly paid versus other districts, in fact, in the top percentile. I suspect overall, population wise, Dixon teachers are part of the very small 1 percent in Dixon.

In the real world (corporate environment), employees who don’t meet performance expectations are terminated. With thousands of newly graduated teachers available, I believe it’s time to replace the Dixon teachers.