and elizabeth barnes, an administrator in the math department. the requested action reads as follows: that the board of education of san francisco unified school district support the actions necessary to implement the recommendation of the superintendant to adopt a 6-12 sequence of standards for mathematics and smaller balance assessment in years 2013-2014. >> before public comment if i hear no objection from the board i would like to take out of order at this time on the common core matters section m. superintendant, do you have a designee to introduce this item? >> yes. this is dr. value tip entino who is going to do the presentation. i want a point of clarification. we have two separate items, one is alignment to the math common core and a spret -- separate item on language arts. >> so we are taking the math at this time. we'll do the english language arts later in the evening. thank you very much. it's a powerpoint? okay. commissioners. and this is the powerpoint that aligns with this. >> we are very pleased to be with you this evening to sha