hi, my name is john gerson. is that on? hi, my name is john gerson. i appreciate that we're spending time today on literacy. the report that we all read was a very important one. and i want to call attention to one key conclusion from the report. it states while african american and pacific islander kindergarten student achievement improved, it did so at the same rate as all kindergarten students. this does not appear to be supported by the data. if you look at the relative growth rates in the all kindergarten students group, it's 5.78% for the aapi group, it's 7.49. there's a 30% difference. so i'm curious what accounts for that difference and why that's covered by a statement that indicates that they're the same rate. i think these issues are important. i'd love it if we approached them in detail. thank you. good evening everyone. my name is supriya ray. i'm coming tonight to comment on the literacy workshop as well, and i wanted to thank you for supriya. would you mind pausing at all the cards? all the speaker cards have to be turned in before the

hi, my name is john gerson. i'll be brief.ain here tonight, and i just want to point out that i think a lot of this was avoidable for too many years. this board has kicked the can down the road on the budget and this is what happens when you run out of road. and i would urge you to take this process seriously to do the work, to find additional funding, to do the work, to align all of our expenses and to not let this happen again. i know it's a hard job. i know that some of you are newer to it, but we do need to take advantage of this moment any way we can to not make this happen again. thank you. good evening everyone. i'm susan fox, i am a teacher at marina middle school. prior to this year, i have been, a long terme temporary teachers. i've done, maternity leaves. i've been at marina for many years and i believe that this non, reelect is age discrimination. and i'm asking that you rescind this non reelect age discrimination. you. i won't go too much into my background. you all received letters which i have here that from tha