obviously ccsso is an important partner in this process. talk a little bit about that work and where you see states right now. >> thanks, caitlin. it's a real honor to be on the panel with these three folks. i don't often get to speak with them. it's great to be here and thanks for inviting me to ewa. i think essa has been a devolution to the states as promised. 17 states have submitted so far. the rest coming in in september. if you're in a state where they've submitted you probably are pretty aware of their plan. if you're in a state that's not yet submitted there's a lot of work going on before september to define that for that state. there's two pieces i think we're most interested in, one making sure that as states set these plans we don't go back to a time pre-no child left behind where we were able to ignore groups of kids or ignore poor performance in any sort of way in any school. before no child left behind, we didn't report out subgroups. so a school could just sort of skate by on averages or things like that. and so i think it's