over the past couple of months, the school has been working with mike davis, kevin truitt and gene robertson to ensure that the concerns that came out of both the business and budget services committee, and the curriculum and program committee have been addressed. during this time we reviewed our volunteer policy, our suspension and expulsion policy, our partnership with sfusd for your services, and i were supports and practices for english language learners. looking at these concerns through an equitable lens, and with sfusd's continued and ongoing support, we updated the sections to ensure that we receive sfusd staff recommendations of approval of the charter for the next five years. and lastly, i would like to thank the board and the district for holding us accountable and partnering with us for the past 25 years, but we also have room to grow and approve. we are committed to doing the work and i look forward to continuing the partnership over the next five years. thank you. [applause]. >> hello, thank you for letting me speak with you this mean -- this evening. i am a proud current paren

matthews, and i believe he's been in touch with chief truitt. he's been doing reductions in chronic absenteeism across the country. he's partners with chicago public schools, l.a. unified and through some very inexpensive strategies, they've been able to see massive reductions in chronic absenteeism. they have a bunch of research, and i shared it all with the subject, and so hopefully, we -- superintendent, and so hopefully, we can use it to address some of these long-standing issues. apparently, some of these other districts that had the issues, they're seeing results. it seems that here, we're trying to see what's happening, why people aren't coming to schools. there's a lot of questions around the current state of things. that's one area that i definitely think we should be looking at. so hopefully, dr. matthews can share that information with you, and kevin can, as well. the last thing i wanted to speak to was it gets back around to our capacity to serve families. we have 19,000 preschool age families, and we serve 1500 of them. is that -- >