next, senator jeff bing mman, new mexico, was also listening to the story. now he wants to engage his local public media station, knme, in a district hearing on how the dropout crisis is impacting the state of new mexico. next, representative george miller from california also heard kavitha's reports and he blogged about the great public media american graduate initiative. so from d.c. to mexico to california and throughout every single state, the dropout story has gone viral. and across the country, public media stations through american graduate, with support from the bill and melinda gates foundation are hosting teacher town hall meetings to listen and learn and effect change. kqed in the bay area produced a town hall in oakland. it was moderated by npr's glen washington. live web cast. and it's going to become a radio broadcast special and video web extra. at the end of the town hall, one oakland teacher stood up and said, thank you, kqet, for coming to us to hear what we have to say. at this point, american graduate efforts have been launched at 68 comm