Instrumental music programs will likely not be cut from Buffalo Public Schools following an announcement today from Mayor Byron W. Brown.
Standing with students, parents and teachers at an East Side school, Brown announced that the city would allocate $400,000 to restore threatened instrumental music programs in each affected school.
The money may not restore every teaching job, but it will restore programs in each of 14 affected schools, Brown said.
The Common Council is in recess for August, but President Richard A. Fontana said he would call a special meeting if at least five Council members are available. Fontana leads a majority on the Council, which is supportive of the mayor, making passage of the allocation likely.
Brown did not say which of the city’s accounts the money would come from – other than that it would come from the city’s general fund – but said the city has money for the programs.
The city’s one-time allocation for music programs will be passed through Say Yes, which will monitor the use of the funds.
Dr. Fatima Morrell, principal of Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, which hosted the event, said the allocation would save the job of the school’s instrumental music teacher, who is part-time at the school and teaches 150 students.
email: jterreri@buffnews.com
Standing with students, parents and teachers at an East Side school, Brown announced that the city would allocate $400,000 to restore threatened instrumental music programs in each affected school.
The money may not restore every teaching job, but it will restore programs in each of 14 affected schools, Brown said.
The Common Council is in recess for August, but President Richard A. Fontana said he would call a special meeting if at least five Council members are available. Fontana leads a majority on the Council, which is supportive of the mayor, making passage of the allocation likely.
Brown did not say which of the city’s accounts the money would come from – other than that it would come from the city’s general fund – but said the city has money for the programs.
The city’s one-time allocation for music programs will be passed through Say Yes, which will monitor the use of the funds.
Dr. Fatima Morrell, principal of Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, which hosted the event, said the allocation would save the job of the school’s instrumental music teacher, who is part-time at the school and teaches 150 students.
email: jterreri@buffnews.com
