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Brighton board advances bond planning after parents, teachers urge major performing-arts investment
Summary
Brighton Area Schools trustees instructed staff to continue developing a possible November bond application after more than two hours of public comment urging a dedicated performing-arts campus, and after board members outlined deadlines and next steps for hiring design and construction advisers.
Brighton Area Schools trustees directed district staff to continue planning a potential bond measure and to begin lining up design and construction advisers after dozens of parents, students and teachers urged the board to fund expanded music and performing-arts facilities.
Speakers at the board’s public-comment period asked the board to include a dedicated band room, orchestra room with climate-controlled storage for instruments, a choir room and a 250–300-seat black-box theater adjacent to the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA). They said existing classrooms are overcrowded, lack adequate storage and produce poor acoustics, which limits student participation and causes instrument damage.
The requests came from parents and program leaders across Brighton Area Schools. Sid Atkin, choir booster president, told the board, “Our music students deserve more than adequacy, they deserve excellence.” Jennifer Evans, Scranton Middle School band and orchestra director, said the district’s secondary music teachers are…
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