arpa by the classroom to support or use the qr code did a special thanks for your great generosity.'s give a warm welcome to the chair of the national governor's association colorado's governor jared polis. ♪♪ [applause] thank you dylan thank you governors and the thrilled to welcome me for great and powerful conversation with two national thought leaders and let's get ready educating all americans for success and thank you to our fellow governors who have been part of its initiative gathering in new york this month. when it comes to education governors uniquely situated. they don't run the schools that we are the major funder of the schools. and for most of us it's a line item in our budget. we are the businesses they hey are we getting what we need from two perspectives are we getting what we need in terms of the individual opportunity to succeed and overcome obstacles and in this economy to empower our success for employers in our state for this last month the newest addition of the nation's report card was released showing to me the students are struggling with math and far too

so i do want to thank arpa for all the work you've done with tableau and to make data publicly available on our website. thank you for that and i look forward to more of it and i'll stop there. that was a lot. would you like some time to just coordinate with each other on our response? >> yeah and just to me provide some context i think for some of the questions that you're hearing and some of the themes that you're hearing um as a board we participated in a student outcomes focused governance training this weekend and i think we're really focused on using these monitoring sessions to figure out what is working for kids and what is not working for kids. and so i think what we're doing is we're really trying to dig into where is the causation, where is the correlation as we come into a tough budget decision, what can we protect that is getting results? and so i think sometimes so what i think we're pushing on that to dig into the data to see what is working that we need to protect from a resource perspective and not so much what do the adults in what are the adults doing and what how do t