“Our mission is to serve primarily music educators, but then by extension also music students and the surrounding communities.”
Carin McEvoy is Executive Director of the Michigan Music Education Association. She and members are scheduled to meet with at least 11 of Michigan’s 15 federal legislators asking they protect Title program funding.
“We’re asking legislators to continue to fund Title I, Title II, and Title IV so that districts can have that ability to support things like music and arts education programming through those funds.”
The group is asking Congress to reject the Trump administration’s budget proposal cutting over $12 billion from the U.S. Department of Education, sidelining subjects like art and music – programs, McEvoy says, that are important to a student’s well-rounded education.
“For students to truly be able to understand and interact in the most fulfilling way with the musical environment around them, they have to have music education.”
McEvoy says approximately 200 schools in Michigan currently have no music program.
