we have a great panel, in addition to mike casserly and secretary duncan, we have chris minnich, from the executive council of state school officers and we have deputy secretary king who will be taking over for secretary duncan at the end of the year, and we have dr. june atkinson of north carolina a leader among state chiefs. in fact, i think you were just named president of the council. nd we have dr. carvalho from miami-dade, also superintendent of the year and very active on the issue of assessment. we have folk whors very knowledgeable about this topic. i'm delighted to jump in. so my first question is for you, deputy secretary king. over the weekend, as we've all heard, the administration acknowledged that it bore some responsibility for overtesting of students. it also announced that the president has directed the education department to review the administration's role in this and how to address how it may have contributed to the problem and to respond accordingly. the department came out with a 10-page testing action plan and -- in which not only you kind of accepted some res