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District arts manager outlines plan to expand K–12 access, staffing and instruments; long‑term facility needs noted
Summary
The New Bedford School Committee heard a detailed proposal to standardize and expand fine arts instruction across the district, including schedule changes, hiring, instrument purchases and long‑term facility upgrades for the high school band program.
Michael Rayner, the district’s curriculum, data and assessment manager for the arts, told the New Bedford School Committee on March 10 that the district is proposing schedule and staffing changes to expand access to music, theater, dance and world language at every elementary school and to create more coherent middle‑to‑high school pathways.
“Right now it's limiting where depending on where you go to school, you get different classes,” Rayner said. “We want to change that so no matter where you grew up in New Bedford, you get the same programming.”
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