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Teachers and parents urge district to boost elementary arts funding; call for stricter high school phone enforcement
Summary
During public comment at the June 10 Board of Education meeting, elementary visual‑arts and music teachers and other speakers told the board they lack consistent per‑pupil funding for arts instruction and that some schools operate on minimal budgets (teachers cited figures such as $150 for several hundred students). Speakers asked
Several public‑commenters at the June 10 Board of Education meeting pressed the district for more consistent support of arts instruction and for stricter cell‑phone enforcement in high schools.
Arts funding concerns from teachers Visual arts teacher Veronica Golden told the board she has taught in Charles County for 18 years and that elementary visual‑arts programs are underfunded “across the district.” Golden told board members she and other elementary art teachers received very limited classroom budgets — she cited receiving $150 for a school of 340 students (about $0.45 per pupil) — and asked the district to adopt a real per‑pupil funding formula and to hold school leaders…
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