my guests this morning are allison tacoras, president of the carlos rosario public charter school.karen masaki is president of the asian-american justice center. mario kias is spokesperson for casa of maryland. let's talk, first ofoff about t recession and washington's immigrant population. how has the ongoing struggle impacted the people that you are serving? let's start with you. >> okay. well, again, i'm the principal of the carlos rosari international public charter school. we are currently serving over 1,600 adult immigrant students on any given day. over 2,000 per school year. what we have found over the past year is that the demand for our services, which include teaching english as a second language, helping our students get their high school diplomas and helping them become citizens, the demand for those services has exponentially increased so that our waiting list has trip pli kated and we now have over 600 students on our waiting list and they have requested that we expand our operations. >> mario, the ongoing challenges, even before the recession, were teaching immigran