BROCKTON – As Brockton Public Schools wrestle with a shortage of teachers and large budget cuts, the district announced last month that in-school music lessons would be removed from the fourth-grade ...

The Board of Education reviewed its options Wednesday for closing a $50 million budget gap and chose to increase class sizes, but emotional appeals from students, parents and educators saved fourth ...

Flooded roads, rescues, and evacuation notices have hit parts of the North Sound. by Jackie Kent, KOMO News Reporter OLYMPIA, Wash. — Some parents in the Olympia School District (OSD) are firing back ...

Fletcher music teacher Sofia Isabella instructs her class on where to find the beginning of a C-major scale. “Can you find the two bunny ears?” asked Sofia Isabella to students in her fourth grade ...

Feb. 1—Students in Sara Cleary's fourth grade music class learned their next note, an E, on the recorder Tuesday morning. It's an important note if they are to play "It's Raining, It's Pouring" ...

In my fourth-grade music class each student was given a white plastic recorder called a “flutophone.” Guided by the music teacher we practiced as a group and learned a few songs for some sort of ...

A Washington school district is planning to cut music classes it believes promote “white supremacy culture” and “significant institutional violence.” The Olympia School District — which is facing a ...

In fourth grade music class, Sister Regina told me not to sing. “You’re distracting the other children,” she said in front of the whole class. “Just move your lips, but don’t make any sound.” My tone ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (KOMO) — Some parents in a Washington state school district are firing back at the school board for cutting fourth-grade music classes as it struggles with a budget shortfall, and a ...