so [inaudible] will now highlight the english lerner achievement data. thank you. so we're gonna look at two different types. the first is looking at reclassification rates of /stoupbts moving from english lerner to fluent english proficient and the second will be english achievement. so on this graph you can see a four year period and the line graph at the top shows the number of el's that have been reclassified and there has been a steep increase. and these orange and black -- orange rep sen the school -- represent the school district, black represents the states. >> at least they're paying attention. >> you can see where the number increased so did the classification for the district. we worked with stanford in order to clean up our data to we would have the capacity to look at el data by pathway so this is a preliminary slide looking at classification and you can see here that reclassification begins in third grade and it -- we wait 'til students have taken the [inaudible] and then are classified during this time period. on the left here are chinese english lea

so [inaudible] will now highlight the english lerner achievement data. thank you. so we're gonna look at two different types. the first is looking at reclassification rates of /stoupbts moving from english lerner to fluent english proficient and the second will be english achievement. so on this graph you can see a four year period and the line graph at the top shows the number of el's that have been reclassified and there has been a steep increase. and these orange and black -- orange rep sen the school -- represent the school district, black

it is a surge you fail 1,000 times i succeeded to lerner's ultimately discovering 1,000 ways to not do something. churchill said the secret of all success pate attention attention, is moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm. [laughter] the government, hold on. my gosh, you try to do wife i? he failed. you can deliver a thing. what is it like? so you are risk averse isn't that the civil service system? you know, this the only way you get fired from an exaggeration, but one where you get fired is not not doing your job effectively but the job of someone else effectively breaking out of standard operating procedure, that was not your job search. i am a big labor guy but this done to me. i got a lot of grief and protest. >> host: pointing at me? [laughter] >> guest: i think 17,000 members disciplinary records, a performance cannot be considered with regard to the abortion -- promotion performance cannot be considered you're automatically eligible for promotion. [laughter] you can spend 27 years and the guy next you 26 years 11 months exceptional you have done terrible he may not be

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