for the 2012-2013 school year, horace mann will be a city wide choice language program. we'll talk about that in detail about that later on in the presentation. at this point, what i like to do is ask my koll league christina wang to take us through the next few slides. >> the district historically had a strong commitment to language pathways. it is one piece of cretting a high quality middle school program in k through eight middle schools as well. just to remind the commission, that the english learners clearly states to polled pathways, that the board's policy provides opportunity for every child to become bilingual and bicultural. the district made a substantial investment in building language pathways for over 35 years with many successful programs that require further articulation into the secondary level. the last time -- the last time that the board discussed this issue, there were questions around the -- the transition between the elementary programs into secondary, what do we have currently? so this chart helps illustrate that we're in the process of strengthen