have allen nance come up six years ago to talk about gun violence or a new representative or paul henderson talking about it. it's the same thing and it's unfortunate that we create an atmosphere where you got non-profit organization running around fighting for little crumbs and you still have the same issues we have been talking about. i have been coming here for 15 almost 20 years so there anything i heard out of the mayor's office all the way back to jordan and now mayor lee. i think we need to be honest with ourselves. bring all of these organizations together and really look at their books because some of the organizations you want to go out of business because if we're counting that we're doing a good job we're lying to ourselves. we have to bury four young black men from the western edition that you know about and all that the chief suhr and the police commission it say we're working on leads and it's a shame and i don't think we can continue playing this game this is a good start to have a representation and get to the nuts and bolts of things but if we're serious whatever we're doi

esther paul leather is you deputy commissioner of education in new hampshire. mr. wade henderson has testified before this committee before chief executive officer of the leadership conference on civil and human rights and the leadership conference education fund. ms. cantwell, fourth and fifth grade special education teacher of the earth school, new york city. and mr. stephen lazar social studies and english teacher harvest collegiate high school in new york city. i've asked -- we have your testimony and we read them, at least i have. we ask you to summarize your testimony in five minutes because we have a lot of interested senders who would like to ask a question. so if you don't mind there's a clock that will show you in five minutes up and i would use the governor why don't we start with you, dr. west go right down the line. >> thank you. chairman alexander, senator murray, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i would like to begin by congratulating the committee of putting the reauthorization act of the top of its legislation ag