congratulation to kari berkowitz and kudos to our associate superintendent of ask the community department kevin for his amazing leadership as well. congratulations (clapping.) i'm also proud to announce ladies and gentlemen, the organization of the largest urban public systems recently prepared american people analysis forever performance of schools across the nation that received school improvement grants sigg grants as part of the rei investment act. our san francisco schools that received the grant awards based on is non-pushed analysis the san francisco schools had the highest gains related to the other 6 california school district that received the grantsd. in 2010 our students were proficient in math at 26.9 percent and that rows to 7.25 percent. there was a reduction of the students that were scoring below basic math dropped in school year 2010 to 7.74 in 2011 and 12. our schools made last year gains in english arts language as well. when this report it that will be presented to the department of transportation of education. we as san francisco folks should feel proud our schools h