By Ryan McCarthy

A Rodriguez High School senior who told trustees about the weekly music instruction he received as a Nelda Mundy Elementary student – and his $20,000-a-year scholarship at Pepperdine University after playing the trombone at a January audition – was among speakers asking Fairfield-Suisun School District trustees Thursday to restore music instruction that’s been cut to an hour a month at elementary schools.

“I don’t know I would have qualified,” Noah Shaw, 17, said of the scholarship,” if I had not started at Nelda Mundy Elementary.”

More than a dozen speakers during public comment at the trustees meeting lauded the benefits of music instruction.

via Elementary school music backers sing its praises in Fairfield Daily Republic.