of education director of community outreach and communications from the local regional office, joe bayerson. this round table discussion was on the federal initiative preschool for all. and although this initiative was for federal initiative,way trying to do outreach for stakeholders as part of a national outreach to different stakeholders while the initiatives in this formative stages. this put stakeholders group was primarily mono lingual, spanish speaking latino mothers. so, i just wanted to highlight a few of those points that were raised in that round table discussion, although it was not intended for our district, i think there's some value in sharing that and keeping that in mind as we align the pre-k through third approach to education here in our district to support student achievement. and those points are that location is key for pre-k programs. many of these mothers don't drive and, so, it was to stress the importance of being able to either walk to pre-k programs that are in the neighborhood or that are easily accessible by transportation, especially when they have to take thei