i saw in "the wyoming register" published in gillette, wyoming, which ships 20% of the coal that our nation uses to create electricity, but their newspaper had an article about the wyoming state budget crisis and how they were protecting education funding from all the cuts because education was so important to their state that they were coming up with a different way to fund it and shield it from the cuts. and i thought maybe california can learn something from rural wyoming. through the power of parents, what we can do. president kim: i wanted to ask the p.u.c., though, if you've been getting frequent updates and what's been happening with the parent engagement plan. >> well, because i was away, the p.a.c. does not meet over the summer. to my knowledge we have not gotten a formal update. i know i haven't seen one. but we haven't gotten one. it's one of the top priorities of mine is to get more informed about and bring that information to the p.a.c. >> i'm happy to come. i've been participating in the meetings, and i'm happy to come and speak to the p.a.c. about some of the ideas abo