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TASA is a publicly traded company whose corporate focus and revenues are centered in the K-12 assessment arena:Through its proprietary unit, TASA provides high-quality, reliable, and valid products and services. Through its custom testing unit, BETA, TASA designs, produces, and distributes assessment materials, as well as provides evaluation, scoring and reporting services, to states and other educational entities. Through its custom assessment subsidiary, AEC, TASA offers standard setting, curriculum evaluation, psychometric consultation, field testing, test development and education program evaluation. Through its technology unit, ADI, TASA now offers a full suite of best-in-class online, electronic, and hybrid (paper combined with online) tests to meet our customers' discrete requirements. Our mission is to provide products and services that assist educators and their publics in improving the education of their students, as well as providing accountability for their school systems. These products and services will be of the highest professional quality possible and will be responsive to the identified needs of the education marketplace. TASA has a dedicated staff of professionals who will oversee the development and production of our products and maintain rigorous quality control over our services. Further, we are in an excellent position to take maximum advantage of TASA and BETA's overlapping expertise to achieve our goal. To that end, we will empower our people,our most valuable asset,by creating and supporting a desirable workplace that includes training and competitive compensation in a non-politicized business environment. In keeping with its mission, TASA also will attempt to leverage its core competencies to increase its critical mass, either through internal growth or acquisition. Internal growth will be accomplished through management of skills and expertise gained through 28 years of experience developing products and services that meet the needs of the educational community. Growth through acquisition will be the result of purchasing businesses that mesh with our strategic plan. The accomplishment of our mission will provide a threefold benefit: a set of superior products and services for our customers; a valuable long-term growing asset for our investors; and a sense of pride and satisfaction in a job done well for ourselves.