speaking second for the obama camp is jon schnur, co-founder and executive chairman of america achievesduring the clinton administration, he served as president clinton's white house associate director for education policy, senior policy adviser on education to vice president gore and special assistant to u.s. secretary of education dick reilly. in 2000 jon co-founded new leaders for new schools, and he served as its ceo until last year. he worked for the 2008 obama for american presidential campaign and was senior adviser to president obama's presidential transition team. he joins us today as an adviser to the obama presidential campaign. with that, marty, if you'd be so kind as to get us started. >> sure. so thanks to rick and to aei for hosting this event and for all of you for being here. this is, obviously, a contentious campaign season so far, so it's nice to be talking today about an area in which there's actually some common ground between the two candidates, and for importantly, i think, genuine prospects for bipartisan collaboration after november 6th. both candidates, agree,