the cci is a complex measure that was approved by the board. the state board of education and it's one measure that's used to gauge post-high school preparation. i'm in the packet that you received is is a paper copy of the attachments that we have in the addendum on the slide and i just want to draw your attention to the two documents. one has a picture of a school on it and the other one has a picture of a group of people representing various careers. to really understand the cci you have to understand that there's two separate measures a college and a career and so this gives you more information around what it means to be prepared or how a student gets designated as prepared or approaching prepared. so if we want to start with the first data set goal three of the overall goal at the end of the 2324 school year the seniors that graduated according to the department of education, 58% were considered to be prepared according to the measures that are on the sheets there in front of you. and one thing to remember about the cci is that it is scho

to that end, cci believes that the urgent engagement with trade partners must be a priority. in all cases, forcefully use of available trade remedies, including section 301 or exploration of disincentives based on u.s. domestic tax rules should be a potential response. these efforts will no doubt signal that other nations should think twice about implementation discriminatory laws that target great companies who provide so much to our economy. thank you, and i look forward to your questions. chair smith: i now recognize mr. rosenbaum for five minutes. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. i am kevin rosenbaum, the executive director of the international intellectual property alliance, the iipa, the coalition of trade associations representing u.s. copyright based industries, working to improve copyright protection and enforcement abroad, and to close markets with piracy. there is no doubt that u.s. trade agreements have meaningfully contributed to the growth of the copyright industries. for the past 35 years, we have commissioned a series of