California has had a 50 percent decline in school-based music education programs over the past five years, a report estimates.
“The Sound of Silence,” is available online from the Music for All Foundation. (Requires Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.)
Over the same period, covering the 1999-2000 to 2003-04 school years, the number of music teachers in the state has declined by 27 percent, according to the report from the Music for All Foundation, a national group based in Warren, N.J. It draws its estimates from California Department of Education data.
