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Students, teachers and parents urge Phoenix Union to reinstate VAPA specialist amid RIF debate
Summary
Student performers, teachers and parents told the Phoenix Union board that eliminating the district's VAPA (visual and performing arts) specialist will overburden teachers, reduce student opportunities and damage recruitment; several asked the board to reconsider the RIF that targets arts-support positions.
Dozens of public commenters used the meeting's call-to-the-public to press trustees to reverse the decision to eliminate the district's visual and performing arts (VAPA) specialist.
"The VAPA specialist is the person who organizes all of our major events ... Without this role, these responsibilities of planning and coordination would fall onto the teachers," said JC Homa, a Maryville High School junior, urging the board to reconsider the cut. Another Maryville senior, Skyler Lemus, said eliminating the…
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