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 seen kids that don t want to go to school all of a sudden have a reason to come. we have an abbottee program in this district. wire one vapa teacher per 200 students, be arts advocates. thank you. president cook: thank you. [applause] hello. my name is travis guyer. i m currently a band teacher at presidio middle school, and i just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about what we do with our peef budget. so every year, i d have to say that i have over 200 students a year, and i have to say that we use all of our budget pr
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 seen kids that don t want to go to school all of a sudden have a reason to come. we have an abbottee program in this district. wire one vapa teacher per 200 students, be arts advocates. thank you. president cook: thank you. [applause] hello. my name is travis guyer. i m currently a band teacher at presidio middle school, and i just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about what we do with our peef budget. so every year, i d have to say that i have over 200 students a year, and i have to say
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 seen kids that don t want to go to school all of a sudden have a reason to come. we have an abbottee program in this district. wire one vapa teacher per 200 students, be arts advocates. thank you. president cook: thank you. [applause] hello. my name is travis guyer. i m currently a band teacher at presidio middle school, and i just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about what we do with our peef budget. so every year, i d have to say that i have over 200 students a year, and i have to say that we use all of our budget pr
listening. [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
the brain that courtney was talking about, the research has been done. they have functional m.r.i.s when you are playing an instrument in a large group, every part of your brain is lighting up, and they are doing serious studies on alzheimer s president cook: i m sorry. [inaudible] president cook: yeah. we have 100 more people behind you. please be respectful to the people behind you. [inaudible] [applause] hi. my name is shannon garrity. i at the point visual art for vapa. and there is no doubt in my mind that you have the very intentions that i do, too, to serve everyone in this district. there is no doubt in my mind that you support arts education. i also understand that you have rules to follow, and you have to take as one person said a finite amount of money and support take a finite amount of money and support teachers and line items. but i live your budget every day, and i am here to give you the human vision of what it is that your line items mean. last ye