there is many people to sign, not the least of which is the long term care council and katharine from the mayor's office and the mayor himself, who hopefully will join us a little bit later today, but we also have a group of folks who helped guide us through this process. i wanted to do a special shot out to all of them because it was a very long effort and well worth it. the planning for this was, as you can see, quite intensive. i'm going to talk a little bit about the second question that i was asked on this interview, and that is -- "why aren't we doing this now, -- what are we doing this now given the economic conditions?" when we started, we knew the economic conditions were bad. we just did not know how bad they would get. the truth is we just did not know. we are all in uncharted territory at this point. so let's talk about the budget. i'm going to ask for the slides to go up now on the state budget. i am going to talk about the california state budget, not what is happening in san francisco. the state budget is primarily where i have been looking in doing advocacy around some

and tony richardson directed that with paul scofield and katharine hepburn, a really, really good movie again, no changes in the screenplay. maybe that's why i liked it so much. i don't know. the only honor you did not receive for virginia woolf, really, was the pulitzer prize. well, there's some controversy about that. back in the days when who's afraid of virginia woolf? was up for the pulitzer prize, the qualified jury of theater professionals voted the play that it should get the pulitzer prize that year. but there were a bunch of newspaper editors who sat on top of the jury, so to speak, and decided whether the jury's recommendations were tolerable or not-- editors and publishers, i think. and this group of 15, the new york times, bless them, told us all, decided eight to seven that who's afraid of virginia woolf? was too what? too controversial, too good-- something; i don't know-- to get the pulitzer prize that year. and the new york times went further and talked to some of the eight who had voted against it and found that half of them had neither seen it nor read it, which gave

but much much warmer is whether is coming our way to know more about that katharine california >> cattrapped schools got a double dose of bad news today lost as much as $700 million in federal money. and more than two and a half billion in state subsidies will be delayed. >> school of illustrators are getting a tough lesson in economics. the budget impasse in sacramento has left the state scrambling for cash. the top priority is paying off bondholders. so it is withholding subsidies for schools. that means the schools will have to borrow money to pay their bills. no sooner had that bad news came of the department of education washington said that california will not get any money for the raise the top program. nine states in the district of columbia will share in it during a half billion dollars of subsidy money. california made a strong bid for the money paris instances. neither of the state's teachers union endorses any of the applications. state superintendent said he is deeply disappointed that california was not selected. >> the race to the top and poses what they say and proven