director kevin chavez and christina wong to do this next presentation. looks like this. good evening commissioners and superintendent. we have witness tonight elementary supervisor, angie [inaudible]. we also have our program administrator for world languages and dual language education michelle [inaudible]. we have with us the assistance -- jennifer [inaudible]. so our outcomes for tonight -- we'd like to introduce the shifts in the 2012 california english language development standards and why they're important. we'd like to share some new data and then present the process and timeline for the [inaudible] action plan revisions. so the purpose of the new california eld standards is to align with california's common course state standards for english language arts, history, social studies, science and technical subjects in common course state standards and also to highlight and amplify key language [inaudible] that are critical for el's to succeed in school while they are developing english. tonight you'll hear a little bit about our work to date. so the purpose is also

thank you president norton, i would like to call the director kevin chavez who will take us through item m. >> good evening, commissioners, and superintendent, so this is regarding the title 3 improvement plan that we are required to submit to the california department of education. san francisco unified school district receives title 3 funding from the federal government to help english learners to speak, read and write in english. and to achieve success in reading and mathematics. school districts and other agencies that receive the title 3 funds are reviewed each year as required in the no child left behind to see if they meet the three measured objectives further english learners, and progress in learning english and the progress in the percentage of students who become proficient in english and language art and mathematics. >> for the 11, 12 school year they met the first two targets and did not meet the academic target in english, language arts for the fourth year in a row and math this last year. this information is shown in the chart that i have presented in my hand out to you. t

us i'm kevin though in this is the weekly live from moscow a round of the big stories of the past seven days and first venezuela has set the date to pick the successor to the late president chavez who died from a heart attack after a two year battle with cancer on tuesday the elections then set to take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his revolutionary vision will live on the feeling from ruptly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas this is the latest from. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who. is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. for hugo chavez personally appointed. the man that he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way the russian has said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia and venezuela and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that there have been many outside powers who would like to s