the first question will come from alex dingman with wibw radio news staff. >> thank you, kelly. right. let's talk education funding. in 2008-2009, kansas spent $4400 in base state aid per pupil. last year it was around 3hundred according to the kansas legislative research department. do you feel like we are spending enough money per student and what will you do to insure that our kids are set up for success. >> moderator: governor brownback will answer first. brownback: thank you very much for the question and we have put a record amount of money in k12 education and we'll continue to spend and spend aggressively for k12 education in the state of kansas. we put 52% of our budget in it and that is great. those are numbers. i want to talk people. my daughter is here as a fifth grade teacher and she loves teaching. and it is the teachers that do so much for us in making our state a great place. my oldest son is going into education. he wants to be a proevery if. i started out in education. what i am saying is we're putting record amounts of money in education but we do that because

our next question will come from alex dingman and it will go to governor brownback first. >> with fewerjobs offering pensions, some systems facing underfunding and more than 7 million workers without access to their retirement "connecticut at. what will you do to help kansas save so they can have a secure financial future? >> one of the things they have already done is fix the capers mess that i inherited. the capers system was in the bankruptcy zone. there are about a quarter million kansasians on capers. it was in the bankruptcy zone with about a $10 billion unfunded obligation. it was second to least funded in america. we put more funds in it. we put more funds in capers, changed the system for next year. people have a cash balance system. on a number of different rating agencies we are rated middle of the pack. we're out of the bankruptcy zone on capers. it is an amazing accomplishment that we were able to do on a bipartisan basis and move that system forward so that we can save. it is a critical one and it has been a fabulous accomplishment moving that system on forward to solvency