that plague the school district, all the kids with headaches and stomachaches because i don't get time to do stuff that's superfun and they really want to choose and it gets them involved in school and part of school. i understand that there have been problems with excel. i don't know what all it is but i would -- that's in the past. and i really don't think that the problems that happened in the past should have an affect on the future of the program. students and parents have been asking already when is it going to start? and we hope we can tell them it will be starting very, very soon. thanks. >> good evening, i'm not dennis kelly. i'm linda plaque, the executive vice president of the united educators of san francisco. and i just wanted to get up this evening to say hello, welcome everybody back, superintendent, commissioners, staff, ladies and gentlemen of the audience. i want to mention something about the race for top money. it's veryit is very unfortunate california did not get it. why did we tried to get it? we are desperate this is a disgrace. the educational reform we are eng