exercise was due in great partnership of the legislature and i especially thank representative mark lemette for his effort on this. we completed much of our education reform package, as i said earlier, our current standing of only having 17% of our students being college ready is unacceptable. our children are our future, and we need to make sure they are not just college ready, but career ready. we need to start an early childhood and finish with lifelong learning, whether it's college or vocational training. we launched the office of great start to focus on our youngest children. i want to thank the foundation committee for helping championship early childhood education. teacher tenure reform was accomplished. now we have a better system to support our teachers, recognize their critical role and create an environment that supports their success. we provide our students and parents with more school choice by removing the cap on charter schools. now we need to make sure we're raising the performance bar on all schools. we have worked to complete. i encourage the legislature to finish the wo