dr. connar. it's a moving target currently. that's part of the difficulty is that it's a moving target. with that said we have agreed by virtue of our quality system, we have agreed that we'll assess our students every year, so what we've advocated for is that if we know that the state of california is not going to fund the cst for all $1500 school districts and we know that not all 1500 school districts are exposed or want to implement the english learners or math assessments, we know there should be funding for students that want to give both without having to pay for one of them. >> the state of california is not going to fund the cst for any school district. >> that's correct. >> the state isn't administering those this year or any longer and we're happy about that. we like that but -- go ahead. just to clarify that part. what you're saying is our effort is to say if you want to give it, you should fund both tests. >> for the smarter balance test which are pilot, they haven't been normed. and we're going to learn from those pilot test. we think it's an important experience for our s

dr. connar into a tailspin. how are we going to develop another indicator to give us that kind of data. some of our admissions to some of our schools is predicated upon the standardized test scores. there's a number of things that we use to test scores for. so we're in the process of actually looking at all of the implications for not having a cst and that's why it sounds a little loose to say we don't quite know everything yet by we're in the process of kind of identifying all of the implications of that. >> if i may followup for a second. two things i still need to know. one is you say we're advocating for the state paying for us to do both pilots, not just one or other, but we still have to pay if we want results that are linked to students available to us or to parents, correct. and then second when you say which i appreciate and i don't expect them to answer to it now but we should get an answer when you say we have to tell parents that they have to pay attention to that, that's great, however, i want to know how we're going to tell parents. do we have a plan? i think of this as a