we just elected in the munenuss pal election in philadelphia a wonderful council woman, maria sanchez, and she won in a district that was not 50% latino. she won because she was the best candidate and ran the best campaign. we have a secretary of state who was appointed by me in my first year of office. he has risen to be president of the national secretary of states association, and he's supervised two presidential elections, in 2004 and 2008, when pennsylvania was the center of the universe and there wasn't one hint of any problem in either of those elections. a remarkable fete by a remarkable young man. [applause] and we've made great progress politically and some progress with groups like ees&a in social and economic fronts. but that progress is challenged today by two things. i just want to take a minute to talk about the two thing that is are challenging those. first is education. i am so pleased that we have made so much gain in pennsylvania in six years in education. 30% more of our children are both proficient in math and in skyance than six years ago. math and english than s