[applause] secretary king is a career ecker who taught -- educator who taught, served as a principal, operated a charter school and was new york state's education commissioner before joining the u.s. the president of education last year. now, with less than a year to go in the obama administration, secretary king is charged with implementing the nation's reauthorized k-12 law, the every student succeeds act. so please join me in welcoming secretary king to the stage. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> wow, that was low energy. [laughter] good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> that's better. it's a privilege to be here with all of you, grateful to leslie for the introduction can, grateful to education week for being a voice for students and educators and also for being a place for constructive, thoughtful dialogue. we're not always going to agree on every policy issue on education in the united states, for sure, but it's important that we have places for thoughtful,

tower the second journey starts at the corner of first and mission and walks through the park and eckernd back down to jessie that is the pocket park at that minute and will be the future and more of the same location you can debate about that option we're now walking past the mission street for the hotels we're interning into ecker and katherine described the landscape near the cafe is build out into this lovely alley we like the green space at the base of the building and walking interest jessie right now from the same view we're continuing jessie into the urban room i think we can feel the viable climatic difference the third journey takes us from the corner of first and mission we're on the other side of the street the salesforce tower looking at the situation and see the building kept with the new grocery stores delhi you know the locals and the view do you only mission on the right-hand side this is important to see how the walk along the street will be completely different we all know that is a busy street but as you're turning into the cafeterias just going past first, 78, first