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Orchestra director and district staff urge board to protect performing‑arts and raise auxiliary pay to retain staff
Summary
An elementary and middle‑school orchestra director asked trustees to preserve performing‑arts staffing and curricular time; a district employee and union leader also urged higher pay for auxiliary staff such as instructional assistants, bus workers and cafeteria employees to reduce turnover.
Several speakers during the citizens‑to‑be‑heard segment asked the board to preserve performing‑arts programs and increase pay for auxiliary staff to address recruitment and retention challenges.
What speakers said - Jennifer John, an orchestra director and former Northside student, said daily instruction is what creates high‑level musical performance and expressed concern about dissolving choir programs, splitting performing‑arts directors for allotment reasons, and declining middle‑school enrollments…
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