my name is todd berman. i'm the executive director of the arts education alliance in the bay area. we provide arts programming in collaboration with the public schools. a lot of our board members are here tonight representing the cause and actually came here to give general public comment, and a lot of us came here for this purpose and kind of got worried about the vapa funding and change plans, but i want to stick to the plan, and i want to urge the board to adopt the declaration of the rights of all students to equity and arts learning. let's do this to become part of a statewide movement, the create california movement, and to affirm that this is a belief that san francisco, to put creativity and the arts first and make is successful and available to every student, that we will teach the whole child. we can use this declaration to lay the groundwork for what we can do with the arts education master plan. we could use it to hold charter schools accountable. and i just want to say that putting art at the center of learning, it deepens learning for soall students, and for so studen