By Richard Bammer

With some audience members holding green and orange signs reading “It’s Elementary! Music for our Children,” more than a dozen speakers on Thursday urged Fairfield-Suisun Unified leaders to restore funding for more music instruction in the district’s elementary schools.

Meeting in district offices on Hilborn Road, trustees heard students, parents, teachers and music instructors essentially say the same thing: find the money to pay for it, because music instruction needs to begin in the primary grades; and it boasts many spinoff benefits, among them increased academic achievement, especially in math and reading.

via Fairfield-Suisun school board urged to bring back music – The Reporter.