Matthew Springer, director of the National Center on Performance Incentives, met with leaders from the New York-based Center for Educational Innovation – Public Education Association (CEI-PEA) to discuss educator incentive reform policies. The Partnership for Innovation in Compensation for Charter Schools (PICCS) is a comprehensive program designed to recruit, retain, develop and reward top quality teachers and school leaders at charter schools. Led by the CEI-PEA, PICCS is funded through a five-year federal grant from the Teacher Incentive Fund program, which supports development of performance-based compensation systems to drive increases in student performance.