deputy superintendent carranza won a prize, in recognition of its leadership and work in public educationso, congratulations. [applause] we are proud that we have you on our team. and also for the audience, vice president mendoza is out of the country and will not be in attendance for this ninth meeting. -- for tonight's meeting. we move on. >> what we are working on is that we're going to work with the associate new superintendent to craft a policy that we have worked on, and we will be working with the associate superintendent, and we had a leadership workshop. president kim: the next is our parent advisory council report. >> hi, my name is -- and i have a child. ok. i have a child in school, and my other kids, she is disabled, she goes to another. my other kid -- my other kids, she is disabled. last week, we went for a meeting to guadeloupe and another, and we talked about what is happening. for the superintendent, and we wanted to know what is not working and what is the plan. we came away from that meeting with a few questions, like how to engage families and understand what is happe