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Shippensburg music teachers urge board to add one full-time elementary music teacher; budget includes music position
Summary
A group of music teachers, led by Katrina Nyman, asked the board to add one full-time music teacher to address stretched staffing; administration said the proposed 2025-26 budget includes funding for a music teacher among other positions.
Katrina Nyman, a music teacher who covers multiple grade levels in the Shippensburg Area School District, urged the board during public comment to add one full-time elementary music teacher to address understaffing across the district's music programs.
"Currently, we have only 7 music teachers, the same number as in the 1980s," Nyman said, describing ensembles that are larger than…
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