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Board approves arts partnerships and a multi-year arts-integration pilot at two elementary schools
Summary
The Rio Rancho Public Schools board approved memoranda of understanding with the Santa Fe Opera and the National Dance Institute and voted to launch a four-year arts-integration pilot at Sandia Vista and Enchanted Hills Elementary with year-one professional development funding.
The Rio Rancho Public Schools board voted Oct. 14 to approve two memoranda of understanding that extend arts programming in district schools and to begin a multi-year arts-integration pilot at two elementary schools.
Kurt Schmidt, the district’s executive director of fine arts, clarified that the Santa Fe Opera MOU covers the ALTO (active learning through opera) program — which brings teaching artists into middle schools and a rotating set of elementary schools for student-led opera projects — and recommended the board approve…
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