secretary duncan tal about this as the moonshot of education reform. this is an opportunityo drive a 12 reform through fiscal policy incentives to the states and incentives. this is a bigger discretionary fund for k-12 education that all eight previous secretaries of education combined had over 28 years the department has been in existence. this is a really significant amount of money to drive reform. remember that reform always be focused around those four areas so it's really important to think about that and keep that in mind. i want to talk about race to the top just because there is a very interesting opportunity here. recently, there was a notice published in the federal register, an invitation for public comments abouthe rules for race to the top. comments were due a week and a half ago was the closing date, august 28. people are now sorting through those. states are the eligible applicants. at least have the money will flow to the states and the dissipating district. there are two phases of funding. so the first applications will be in late 200