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Mcdonald who is here with us clapping and the heroes in my mind absolutely the folks that led the work effecting lives each and every day our entire Principle Group is here today. Can you stand so we can applaud you . Thank you. Thank you for being here. And obviously, we want to thank our principle here at Martin Luther King Middle School natalie for opening her doors to us clapping id like to okay as well as our assistant superintendant ms. Jean i didnt pond. clapping . Our director of middle schools mr. Richard curbing i didnt clapping . And you may have heard r a word or two is our superin...

Inclusion, as well as our english language learners. I think there are much better ways to serve those families with this technology. And then i just wanted to congratulate the Family Technology survey. This is really great to have data on hand and be able to see and to really [inaudible] some of the myths weve maintained about the level of technology up take among or families. Our families. I would urge that we think about chinese language content and we now as a city have embraced [inaudible] as a language that all of our government documents are supposed to be translated into. And now the c...

Digital district is that those become dynamic and so that students are interacting with them on a screen rather than simply printing them out and looking at them on the screen. Thank you. That was a good short answer, i appreciate that. And then the last question i had, which was on slide 15, which talks about the Digital District will be executed over a three year period. I guess im going to ask a couple of questions and maybe you can give me a paragraph of an answer. Im curious and maybe you mentioned it and i missed the front end of your presentation, but how are we [inaudible] how are we g...

Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that because as you were talking about it, i was trying to think that makes sense to try to get a huge, ...

An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were ...