mike pa treli, he is the president of the thomas fordham institutes. and liz king, the director of education policy at the leadership conference. i would love to sort of get started by jumping into this, making sure we have a lot of time for questions at the end. i would like to ask you, chris, if you can sort of give us a high-level overview of where states are right now. obviously ctso is an important partner in this process. >> it's an honor to be on the panel with these three folks. i don't often get to speak with them, so it is -- it's great to be here. thank you for inviting me to ewa. i think esa has been a devolution to the states as promised. we have 17 states who have submitted so far. the rest coming in in september. if you are in a state where they've submitted, you are probably pretty aware of their plan. if you are in a state that's not yet submitted there is a lot of work going on between now and september to define that for that state. i think there are two pieces that i think we are most interested in. one, making sure that, as states