Updated April 17, 2023 Introduction The teacher retention issue is multifaceted and felt across school systems in the United States. No one solution can solve such a wide-ranging and diverse…
Update: More than 140,000 Music Educators and Music Supporters Celebrate the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Elevating Music as a Stand-Alone Subject House Passes Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)…
Early this afternoon, after several hours of negotiation, the United States Senate voted to invoke cloture on debate regarding the “Every Child Achieves Act of 2015” (S. 1177). Cloture is…
On May 21, 2015, the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) and Stand Up 4 Music (SU4M), a coalition of twelve organizations, came together to support music education in California in…
For Immediate Release Contact: Catherina Hurlburt at NAfME catherinah@nafme.org or (703) 860-4000 RESTON, VA. (April 7, 2015) – For the first time in education history, music has been recognized as…
Earlier this week, Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a “discussion draft” of his new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)…
Right off the bat in January, the new 114th Congress dove headfirst into the education policy debate. And NAfME and fellow music education groups were right there in the midst…
