Hello everyone, welcome back to Hang with Harmila. A special day for us here is we're with State Representative Steve Reich. There's a lot of buzz in educational circles about the new evidence based model of funding and that's something new for how our schools are funded. So we're open Steve can tell us a little bit more about it and what it means for us here in Harvard. Thank you. We just passed in the State Legislature just passed in the Governor's signed a bill that changes the way we pay for schools, are supposed to pay for schools here in Illinois. It establishes a funding level for certain benchmarks that a school should have. It takes class sizes, ESL students, special needs and puts them all into a formula that says, okay if you have this many kids in in kindergarten you need you'll get so much funding based upon that number of children. But the fact is is that the evidence based model stands to help Harvard gain quite a lot of money because Harvard is in the tier one level of schools which means it's furthest away from adequacy and the model puts more money into the lower tier schools with the hope of bringing them up toward adequacy. It quantifies the needs of various school districts. Obviously the thing is will the money be available in order to make that leap in additional funding? That's a good question. The state legislature is appropriated an additional $350 million for implementing the the K through 12 or the evidence based model. We'll see if we get it. Economic growth has to has to provide that but the fact remains is that we're trying to find a way in which schools can receive the kind of funding from the state of Illinois. The Constitution says the state's primarily responsible for paying for education. Now we're trying to figure out a way how we step up and actually do that. Wonderful congratulations to all the legislators who have made that happen and we're excited to see what it means to Harvard and then most importantly to our students who deserve only the very best. Thanks everyone.