however the law that creates the system for teacher professional development requires school principals to define professional development plans for their teaching bodies on the basis of information provided by school selfevaluation and teacher evaluation and to create teacher professional development plans in the context of school development plans first the current practice of linking monthly school grants to actual school attendance imposes an undue financial burden on school providers it would be important to replace this mechanism with one based on school enrolment at the start of the year with an adjustment possibly midway through the year to reflect dropouts and transfers between schools