In this manuscript style dissertation, the author advocates for specific reforms to Georgia law. The reforms are designed to protect good teachers, allow poor-performing teachers a chance to improve performance, and remove bad teachers. By engaging in these reforms, Georgia can protect its students and teachers, and it can help Georgia meet its growing economic needs.Every state and territory in the United States, including Georgia, require certain individuals to report suspected child abuse. In Georgia, mandated reporters are not protected from employment retaliation. This creates the potential for a mandated reporter to have to choose between criminal charges for failing to report suspected child abuse or losing one’s job and having a termination on their record. Protection for mandated reporters would require a new statute or amendment of a current statute. In the first manuscript, an examination of jurisdictions that provide employment protections provides inspiration for how Georgia legislators could protect mandated reporters who keep children safe. In Georgia, the Georgia Whistleblower Act (“GWA”) protects public employees who report unlawful activity. Recent court decisions have reduced the GWA to a state of uselessness. Federal whistleblower law provides useful insights on how the Georgia General Assembly can amend the GWA to restore and enhance its effectiveness. The second manuscript details the history of the GWA and recent court decisions. The manuscript then examines federal whistleblower law. Finally, recommendations, including draft amendment language, are provided. As part of a broad accountability movement in the United States, value-added measures or value-added models (“VAMs”), combined with high stakes standardized tests went into effect across the country. This article analyzes the history of tenure and tenure reform, the legal environment of VAMs, and empirical evidence regarding the costs and effectiveness of tenure reform, VAMs, and incentive pay for teachers. Concluding that VAMs are generally useful, but not reliable enough for yearly or high-stakes personnel decisions, the third manuscript recommends a development from higher education – the post-tenure review. By confining VAMs to a post-tenure review setting, VAMs can be used appropriately given its limitations.