of that gap and how big its on day one, our schools are doing better than schools in other states actuallng at clo it. they're not able to accelerate it to completely close the gap. so what we see in lifornia is most affluent students are achieving compared to thels hig lin other states. our low inme our black students and eveninglish langua learners. >> the rearch teams californ used to be a leader in early school education. but have fallen behind other states. how did thisn? happ >> great question. one of the things this is why we have tried to step back and think about the entire system. why we look atprek through 12 education chlts all of these pieces are related. and what we ha seen is there is a huge emp ss on k 12 education the past decade. and we have made some really vast improvement in the area. around funding and around support. hanges to the accountability syste and so not only do we still need improvement in k 12. but the early childhood paces haven't been attended to. >> jill, funding alone can't fix everything. you would think some of the problems would have been mitigated be