roberta stanley with the national school board association. my question is directed to the chancellor. new york state has a wonderful system, regional education service agencies which lot of states try to emulates jealous of. have you not utilized them? what are your plans to do so? >> one of the key questions was to rely on a our professional development teams with teacher and principal evaluation and top application was submitted and there would be professional development experts and assessment experts that would support each set of schools and those are based on regional service providers. that is powerful because historically they have been great providers of services and career and technical opportunities and race to the top created an opportunity to play a major role regionally and approach professional development curriculums and thinking about teacher and principal evaluation together. that has been very powerful. we hope over time as a response to economic challenges we regionalize more challenges. >> that policy century foundation,

roberta stanley with the national school boards association. my question is directed to the chancellor. the new york state has a wonderful system of regional and education service agencies which a lot of other states try to emulate and are kind of jealous of to date have not utilized them or what are your plans to do so? >> so, things for the question. one of the key elements of the plan is to rely on the proceeds for our professional development teams that are supporting implementation of the common corps teacher and principal instruction. the way we organize the application was committed that there would be teams, professional development experts derwood support each set of schools and their based in the regional service providers. that's been very powerful because i think that is directly they've been a great provider to schools, special-education services an opportunity to play a much larger role regionally and comment approaches to the professional development curriculum and thinking about teacher and principal evaluation together. so that

roberta stanley with the national school board association. my question is directed to the chancellor. the new york state has a wonderful system of regional education service agencies which a lot of other states tried to emulate. kind of jealous of. had you not utilized them? what are your plans to do so? >> one of the -- thank you for the question. one of the key elements was to rely on the abilities are professional development teams that are supporting implementation of the common chord teacher and principal of valuation data and instructions. the way we organize our race to the publication, there would be teams of professional development expert tips of experts, curriculum experts the would support each set of schools and those teams are based in those regional service providers. and very powerful because i think historically they have been great providers of back office services to schools, special education services and career in technical education opportunities for kids. race to the top greedy and opportunity for those who are much mor

roberta stanley. i'm with the national school boards association. my question is directed to the chancellor. the new york state has a wonderful system of regional education service agencies called boces which a lot of other states try to emulate and are kind of jealous of. have you not utilized them, or what are your plans to do so? >> one of the -- thanks for the question. one of the key elements of our race to the top plan was to rely on the boces for our professional development teams that are supporting implementation of the common core, teacher and principal evaluation, data-driven instruction. the way we organize our application, we committed that there would be teams of professional development experts, curriculum experts, assessment experts, that would support each set of schools, and those teams are based in those regional service providers that are based in the boces. and that's been very powerful because i think historically the boces have been great providers of back-office services to schools, and career and technical education opportun