. >> good evening, board of education commissioners and superintendent carranza, i'm susan soloman, i am here representing the closed gap coalition, gordon was here and was not able to stay to speak. where many items that i will try to keep it short as short as possible. and we have a number of concerns, one is about many of the funds that are being swept, the categorical funds, i will focus on just a couple. for high school or high school graduation is such an important goal for us for all of us class size reduction for 9th grade, high school, class size reduction is being swept for ninth grade math and we need to see something better than that. we have in our contract, the collective bargaining agreement, the contract language about how we can talk about reducing class size if there is or are additional funds and here is the citation. >> and then, we are also concerned about the sweeping of the kc funds. we need to support our students and we need to do it right in the school sites. in terms of professional development, those funds have been swept as well. as you probably know, this