Ind. Schools Fear Budget Cuts Spell Sour Note for Music
Indianapolis
The third-graders sat in a circle of chairs, barely able to resist the urge to touch the instruments sitting nearby.
The drums were made of large trash cans or bright orange five-gallon buckets reinforced with silver duct tape. But the students didn't care. It was percussion day, and they were ready to make some music.
"We try to get creative with limited funding," said Tricia Clark, the music teacher at Theodore Potter School 74 in the Indianapolis Public Schools system, the state's largest — and...
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