i'll now hand it over to our educational policy analyst, miss laura hinton, to share some collectiveected data, excuse me, and to provide an overview of our programs and key highlights. thanks, leticia. so last year there were nearly 3000 black students in the district. and when you consider multiracial students, there were nearly 5000 black students in the district. we wanted to highlight two academic outcomes as an area of promise. we saw was the reduction in chronic absenteeism for black students. last year, sfusd reduced chronic absenteeism by seven percentage points for black students and students in two of our programs, mastering cultural identity and black star rising saw a 33 percentage point reduction in absenteeism. whoa an area of opportunity we saw was standardized test scores. although we are getting students to attend school more, that hasn't yet translated to academic outcomes. and we'll talk more about why we think that is in our recommendations. but for now, test scores for black students in the district are still about 110 points away from proficiency in ela and 150