Editor's Note: Carlos Garcia moved on from the Clark County School District in 2005. He now serves as superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. Carol Lark, principal of C.P. Squires Elementary School when this video was produced, has also left the Clark County School District and is now superintendent of a school district in northern Nevada.
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