CONCORD (KPIX 5) -- The Mount Diablo Unified School District voted Wednesday evening on a controversial plan to cut programs like elementary school music classes and librarians for middle and high ...

Despite last week’s funding proposition defeat, the Hawthorn Elementary District 73 School Board has voted to reinstate the 4th-grade band and orchestra program by hiring two instructors. The Vernon ...

Fletcher music teacher Sofia Isabella instructs her class on where to find the beginning of a C-major scale. “Can you find the two bunny ears?” asked Sofia Isabella to students in her fourth grade ...

Feb. 1—Students in Sara Cleary's fourth grade music class learned their next note, an E, on the recorder Tuesday morning. It's an important note if they are to play "It's Raining, It's Pouring" ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Some parents in the Olympia School District (OSD) are firing back at the school board for cutting fourth-grade music classes as it struggles with a budget shortfall, and a board ...

No. 2 pencils and Scantron answer sheets would seem to have no place in elementary-school music rooms, where singing, playing recorders and thumping wooden xylophones typically take center stage. But ...