and from d.c., neil mcclusky thanks all of you for being here. randy, a judge just ruled in favor of parents in a california case. a similar situation brewing in the courts of new york. parents saying teacher tenure laws violate kids rights to a good education. because it's so hard to get a tenured teacher fired. why does it take five to 800 days to keep a tenured teacher fired? >> in new york and new jersey and connecticut all those laws have been changes. because k-12 teacher tenure is supposed to be, if there is just cause to dismiss someone, then they should be dismissed but they have a right to have a hearing beforehand. and so what we saw was, how do we make sure that teacher tenure is what it's supposed to be, a way in which people can actually exercise professional judgment can stand up for kids, but at the same and night about patronage and cronyism, but at the same time if a person can't teach they shouldn't be there. in california those laws have been changed in new york connecticut and new jersey and that's why we're a little surprise

neil mcclusky on the left here is the director for the cato institute for educational freedom.s ph.d. from ujjy neil has two school age children.x emmitt to my left )$+íi the director of the education program at the principles program. he is the co-author of co top, why common cor l$(p" for america. he is co-founder of truthinamericaneducation.com, a v&9 nationwide network of individuals and organizations ,[df that shed light on the common core system. also a graduate of georgetown university and fordham school of law.wwke÷ z children. neal, i'd love to start with you.> i think a lot of people here today know the basics about common core but others may not.'zÑ i thought it might be good to start with what is common core vt and what are some of the misperceptions that we might have about it? >> yeah. so t-p misconceptions about common core. most basically what it is is, you can say, i think with most people agreeing, at a minimum, klqu it's a set of standards in math and readingkmc developed bymwqf the national government association of state schoolin officers. and that iú<çámb<