my name is alice mosley. i'll be brief. i am one of the afore mentioned music teachers, and i'll tell you it is very tricky. we have very little time. it's tlilg to see t-- thrillin to see the students, it's thrilling to see their parents, and it's thrilling to see their eyes light up. i think it does reach all areas, and many people have referred to the research linking music to literacy innovation. however you try to divide it up, i think that now robbing peter to pay paul is not the way to be going forward. we should be looking for more funding for all of the apartmenarts and p.e., not saying we're going to take it out of one pot and put it in the other, so thank you very much. [applause] >> hello. my name is peter ryman or p.j. i teach vocal arts in san francisco, and i'm here to talk about vapa. according to vapa, their mission is to provide increased access and equity to sequential -- quality sequential programs, in my two years of teaching on the east side, i notice a discrepancy in the program. some schools do offer

shannon gritte, daniel donahue, alice mosley, courtney lindell, ana kearney. >> good evening, superintendent, commissioners. i'm sandra halladay. i have two students who graduated from san francisco public schools. i was very fortunate many years ago to cofound san franciscans for public schools and i had the pleasure to recruit your former director, hydra mendoza. i was in the room when it happened when peef was dreamed up. i was in the room when we dreamt up and lobbied for the arts education master plan to be dreamed up and implemented. and one of the things i would like to remind you of when peef was first discussed, it was crucial of that discussion to have an arts education master plan. the city did not want to fund something until they had a master plan. i would ask you before you fund something, you wait for the 18 months of conversations with artists, art teachers, students, parents in the school district, to find out their 18 months of discussion. i think it's very underhanded to come up with an amendment that would gut vapa without any of the recommendations in that plan. a lot of