The pennsylvania secretary of education, pedro rivera. Thank you for being with us. The proposed budget for your department in the coming year is about 6 billion. Where does that money go . Mr. Rivera first, thank you for the opportunity. It is an interesting topic of conversation as you are looking specifically at Education Funding. The vast majority of ending is actually passed through to School Districts. We are a relatively Small Department in terms of service to 500 districts across the commonwealth including 174 harder schools and Technical Education Centers Charter Schools and Technical Education centers. But most of our funding is for but how do you allocate that questio . Mr. Rivera we are proud of some of the work we have in engaged in. For the first time, pennsylvania has a basic Education Funding formula. Historically we had run our lending through a legislative process, meaning wherever you started ended last year is where you would start this year. The first time over two