louis, and frances kai-hwa wong is in ann arbor, michigan. and hello to both of you. gabrielle, i'm going to start with you. you have been talking to education officials, you have been looking at schools in missouri. tell us what you're hearing and seeing there. >> so we're seeing these shortages across the state, and here in st. louis, one of our school systems tells us that they've experienced over 200 vacancies, and that includes teachers and other support staff. and, so, i think the way that we're really able to see how this is affecting our state is kind of through the solutions that districts are coming up with, so everything from some school districts paying their bus drivers more to be custodians when they're not driving. we have one district in missouri that's now hiring some of its own high school students to fill in some of those nonteacher roles. but it's is a state issue, right, so our state pledged $50 million over the next couple of years to try to fill in some of the gaps and also try to ract more teachers because the state says that it has seen a dip