 School success can't be boiled down to a single measure. Small steps can help Pennsylvania's school students and community succeed every day. And this year, the Pennsylvania Department of Education made every day count. By restoring and expanding critical programs in our schools, we worked toward a goal of improving education for everyone in the Commonwealth. We worked closely with Governor Wolf to fight for historic investment in our schools. And we toured the state engaging students, teachers, and administrators about how they can use those critical funds and additional resources. At PDE, we know that strategic investments in education from pre-K to post-secondary will help students graduate college and career ready and return Pennsylvania to a path to long-term prosperity. As such, PDE helped establish a new bipartisan basic education funding formula to more fairly and comprehensively provide resources to all schools, from Erie to Philly and everywhere in between. Also this year, the department trained hundreds of educators at the 2015 Standard Aligned System, or SAS Institute, fostering discussions about best practice and innovative approaches to use in the classroom. We also redesigned the SAS portal by a public online tool for teachers, making it more user-friendly and easier to find sample lesson plans, curriculum, and resources to strengthen teaching and learning. PDE supported families and communities this year through its investment in programs that benefit all residents. Through an expansion of the Summer Food Service program, we provided 300 new sites for at-risk children to receive healthy summer meals. We also helped battle the effects of summer slide, or literacy loss, by offering reading opportunities to hundreds of children at libraries across the Commonwealth through our summer reading program Every Hero has a story. We focused on the health of Pennsylvanians as we worked with the Department of Health to suggest changes to the state's school immunization policy, helping students get fully immunized sooner and keeping classrooms healthy. We also worked with the Wolf Administration and other agencies to get the life-saving drug and adult naloxone stopped in schools. While each of Pennsylvania's 700-plus school districts and education agencies has unique strengths and needs, their overarching mission and goals remain largely similar. PDE focused this year on listening to those needs and formulating action plans to help schools succeed. We are proud of the work we've done in 2015 and are eager to see what more we can accomplish in years to come.