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Newport-Mesa Unified updates arts programs; Save the Music grants provide instruments to local schools
Summary
A Newport-Mesa Unified School District representative reported on Prop 28-funded expansions in dance, theater and secondary arts coaching, and said Save the Music Foundation awarded roughly $60,000 in instruments and materials to two Costa Mesa-area schools while providing professional development for teachers.
Tamara Fairbanks presented the Newport-Mesa Unified School District's arts report, describing how Prop 28 funds and outside partnerships are expanding arts access at both the secondary and elementary levels.
Fairbanks said secondary schools have arts coaching (citing Monte Vista and Rebecca Waldron) and that elementary sites have added three dance teachers and three theater teachers assigned across multiple schools. She…
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