my name is joseph churchill, and i can say that i know the san francisco unified school district very well from the inside out, being that i'm now vapa ittinerant arts school and serving at the end of the year over 1600 students. i am also a product of the san francisco unified school district. i went to andrew jackson elementary school. i went to cabrillo elementary school. and you wonder why so many elementary schools. we had a retrofit for earthquakes. i graduated from washington high school in the late 80's. i went to roosevelt elementary school, and i'm very thankful i had the opportunity at roosevelt to be in band. it didn't allow me to take the visual arts because that was my elective, but that stayed with me until now. i'm a musician now, but i'm a visual artist because i worked very hard after barely graduating from washington high school, okay? i'm telling you that i know it from the inside out. i worked hard at city college, 13th grade, to get myself into a four-year college, and that's where i realized no, you're an artist, and i graduated from the studio art department, c

roberts-fong, jill daneen, robin saunders, an amarie tillian, bill armstrong, sierra ortiz, joseph churchill, isabella palomonde. go ahead. you can -- you can begin. >> my name is jessica buchsman. i'm a parent at new tradition elementary school. my two boys have directly benefited from the district's vapa program and funding with vapa teachers in their schools. i'm also a product of sfusd schools? i've had kids in the district for the last eight years so i've been through and seen many struggles for funding. so i was saddened but not surprised this afternoon to receive a distress call from our school community? i even left my eight-year-old at home with my 13-year-old in order to be here. and i'm still here, even though a lot of people have already said what needs to be said because i want the teachers to know that they have parents' support. to the board, we're counting on you as our elected representatives to fund the arts. through vapa, through the peef as it exists, the last-minute change that we heard about today feels really sudden, inappropriately so in a district that's supposed to

in a few months, he would travel to germany and meet with joseph stalin, winston churchill. at the conference. and on the way home to the united states, he would authorize the use of the atomic bomb on military targets. two atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. >> with this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. >> and so the first five months of truman's presidency were among the most challenging of any president in our history. mrs. truman suffered a loss with the death of her mother. she died a few weeks before christmas in 1952. and really just a few weeks before president truman would lead the presidency in january of 1953. she died without a will. and so what mr. and mrs. truman did is they bought this home from the estate of mage gates wallace. then when the paper work was done. they could legally call it the truman home. from 1953 to 1972 were the only years in which harry and bess truman lived in this home by themselves. and in say perhaps those were the happiest 19 years of their lives. >> your thought of us is alway