Thank you for being here. First were getting through our security system. Its great. If you have ever been to dca in august, you know this is not typical at all. We hope you had a great experience and we wanted to make it more special. I want to work i want to are excitedand we to have so many partners engaged in this work. It is an issue for me that is so vital, having spent the bulk of my career in education and having seen what occurs with students on a regular basis and all kinds of settings. I will talk more about that in just a few minutes, but it such a great honor for me to introduce our next guest who is at the white house and it has been an honor for me to get to know him. One of the things i want to share with you is ive never met a person in government who has more focus, more commitment to kids, but even more so who has more heart in the game. Every time i speak with roberto rodriguez, im reminded of why anyone of us wants to work with kids every day. It is a passion that