especially for poorer kids and kids of color, distance learning just doesn't work. so i'm grateful that i've got a governor that has gone through extraordinary lengths to make sure that the federal dollars are used to keep schools open. but anything new that you can share with us about what you're recommending for schools to stay open for the rest of the year. >> thank you, senator murphy. and the fact that you took the words right out of my mouth. schools should be the first places to open and the last places to close. we have a delta surge in the fall, and 99% of our schools were safely opened. and one of the things that's majorly different between september of 2021 and today is we have pediatric vaccinations. we have vaccines that are available for every child over the age of five, and the children who are in the hospital now are largely those who are unvaccinated, so foirirst and foremost one of the most important things that has changed is we should be getting our children and our teenagers vaccinated and if our teenagers are eligible, we have boosters available for our teenagers as well. so we saw through the delta surge ha we were able to keep