Amid cutbacks, schools uniting to celebrate arts

Published: April 20, 2010 5:53 a.m.

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A countrywide sing-song that involves 180 B.C. schools is being organized to celebrate the arts as education officials make cuts to address budget shortfalls.

Norman Mould, president of the Coalition for Music Education in B.C., is helping organize Music Monday on May 3.

School board trustees are likely to “(cut) programs that they see as frills,” he said.

Mould said music programs give students skills such as self-discipline and problem solving that they need when applying for jobs later in life.

In Vancouver, where the school board is facing an $18-million deficit, more than 300 people rallied near Empire Field yesterday.

They said that money being spent on rebuilding Empire Stadium and on a new roof for B.C. Place should instead be given to the school board, according to news1130.com.

With next year’s budget due to be finalized by May 1, the B.C. government, unhappy with how the Vancouver School Board is spending its funding, has appointed comptroller general Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland to review expenditures.

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