Nearly every D.C. teacher offered the chance to forego some of their classroom evaluations chose to do so, under a new incentive program for top teachers.

D.C. Public Schools introduced a pilot program in the fall that allows teachers rated “highly effective” on their Impact evaluations for the past two years to skip three of their five classroom observations if they perform well on the first two, The Washington Examiner first reported. Teachers and other educators are scored on a scale of 1 to 4, or “ineffective” to “highly effective,” during each classroom evaluation.