ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Proposition 28 would roughly double the amount of funding California gives schools for arts and music education, and it would send 30% of that money to schools serving students from lower-income families.
Junior Ruth Delgado plays the violin during orchestra class at Richmond High School in Richmond on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.
Montances is a senior who plays viola in the Richmond High orchestra. The East Bay public high school, along with Kennedy High, is located in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, and is made up of 1,511 students, of whom 85.4% are Latino. In 2016, voters in Berkeley, a wealthier part of the Bay Area, raised taxes to boost music education bythat raises $2 million annually to pay for music education for all public school kids starting in third grade.
Andrea Landin, director of school and neighborhood partnerships, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts “Sometimes kids can't really name exactly what's going on emotionally or mentally, but once they start to move or sing or play an instrument or get on stage and pretend to be someone else, then there's so much healing that goes on, so much realization and growth,” Landin explained.
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