Charlotte Avril
- Jul 6, 2018
Fair Education Funding Would Strike a Positive Note for Music Education
Thanks to a middle school band program, a young woman named Hannah learned to play the trombone, and eventually earned a music scholarship to college. This program was not actually provided by her school—which had cut music education due to a lack of funding—but by a free, after-school program offered by the Youth Orchestra of Bucks County (YOBC). As a member of YOBC, I learned about the orchestra’s efforts to bolster music education in underfunded schools, and I started Posi

