Passed in 2022, Prop 28 funded music and arts programs for schools across California, and the Bakersfield City School District says overall, it helps student perform better in school.
- Video shows music integration program at Thorner Elementary School
- The Bakersfield City School District hired 18 new teachers with Prop 28 funding to integration music and arts into elementary school classrooms.
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Students at Thorner Elementary School can now play instruments like this and Bakersfield City School District is one of the first in the state to make programs like this possible.
“You’re going to tell everybody. Hear ye, hear ye,” Jennifer Resolme, the arts integration teacher at Thorner and Williams Elementary Schools, said as her student repeated after her. “I hereby declare. This class is in session!”