my name is caitlin emma. i'm a reporter here at politico in d.c. i cover education policy. the law passed in 2015 that replace nod child left behind and where states are at right now. y we're going to talk about that today. to bring you up to speed, essentially, there are two submission windows for states to send in their plans under this law for holding schools accountable, for how they plan to intervene in schools, for how they plan to intervene in groups of students that are consistently underperforming. we have about 16 states and d.c. so far have submitted for this spring window. we have another window coming up this september. i'm sure you're familiar with the fact that education secretary betsy devos is tasked with reviewing these plans, along with a group of people known as peer reviewers. so with that, i'd love to get started with our panelists who are experts on these plans. we have chris, the executive director of the council of chief state school officers. we have linda darling hammond. the president of the thomas b. fordham student. at the far end is liz king,

my name is caitlin emma. we are going to talk about this law that passed in 2015 that replaced no child left behind and sort of where states are at right now. so we are going to talk about that today. so to bring you up to speed, there are two submission windows for states to send in their plans under this new law for holding schools accountable, for how they plan to intervene in schools, and how they plan to intervene in groups of students who are consistently under performing. 16 states in d.c. have submitted for the spring window. and another window coming up in september. i am sure you are familiar with education secretary betsy devos is tasked on reviewing these forms along with peer reviers. to my immediately we have chris minn minnich. and we have linda darling-hammond. mike petrilli, he is the president of the thomas b. fordham institute. and liz king. i would love to get started by you know jump into this, and make sure we have a lot of time for questions at the end. i would like to ask you krichri s