w -- on the cmt. >> i would like to see a reduction in the number of kids taking the cma. that seems too high and the increase is a light -- alarming. >> my second question is about the dropout rate. the drop out rate and graduation rate. the dropout number seems mushy and it seems there is a million ways of calculating it. is this the state's official measurement? this is what we would say, what everybody all over california is using as the state's measurement? >> the state does calculate it in many different ways. this is a dropout rate for the group graduating in 2009-2010. for the group that graduated in 2009-2010, they went back and looked at how many were in -- enrolled in 2006-2007 in ninth grade and track them to see how many graduated, how many dropped out, and how many others, still continuing. >> maybe you do not have enough credits to graduate so you need to go further. got it. >> i want to follow-up on that. >> do you have other questions? >> i want to follow-up on that. i want to know about where in the statistic, the ones to transfer -- in the statistics, wh