[applause] >> my name is courtney lindell and i'm the building union represent and middle schoolteachers and was published in the fall in one of the most highly reviewed peer education music journals. i'm ask you to reallocate the p funding to stop educational inequity. i teach at the number one middle school. we have six vapa teachers. you can't tell me kids on the other side of the city are getting the same education because they don't have the same access. require each school to have one vapa teacher for every 200 students and unit peef to fund it. before the massive art cuts in the 1980 es, every school had vapa teachers, arts, orchestra, and choir. the federal government recognized vapa as a core back in the 1990's. parents' top school choices are always the school with the sequential arts and music programs. every teacher in the school resigned cohort recommended making music and arts a core course but the district won't listen. and it makes sense that all the parents want kids to have focus in the arts. a recent study found that musicians' brains are larger than nonmusicians. i've

[applause] >> my name is courtney lindell and i'm the building union represent and middle schoolteachers and was published in the fall in one of the most highly reviewed peer education music journals. i'm ask you to reallocate the p funding to stop educational inequity. i teach at the number one middle school. we have six vapa teachers. you can't tell me kids on the other side of the city are getting the same education because they don't have the same access. require each school to have one vapa teacher for every 200 students and unit peef to fund it. before the massive art cuts in the 1980 es, every school had vapa