{"id":53760,"date":"2018-05-03T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=53760"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:31:30","slug":"the-scoop-province-to-invest-in-musical-instrument-refurbishment-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/05\/03\/the-scoop-province-to-invest-in-musical-instrument-refurbishment-program\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Province To Invest In Musical Instrument Refurbishment Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53761\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/chuttersnap-139481-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by @chuttersnap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/chuttersnap-139481-unsplash.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/chuttersnap-139481-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/chuttersnap-139481-unsplash-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by @chuttersnap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ontario Ministry of Education has partnered with Music Canada to invest $3 million in the Three R&#8217;s Music Program, a musical instrument refurbishment program which aims to refurbish and restore musical instruments in Ontario&#8217;s publicly funded schools.<\/p>\n<p>The funding, which is part of the $21 million commitment to arts education announced in Ontario&#8217;s 2018 Budget, and will be prioritized towards to at-risk, minority, and Indigenous youth.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a 2017 report by the People for Education, which found that there has been a 48 percent drop in elementary schools with music teachers from a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to Annie Kidder, executive director of People for Education in a CBC report, the decline\u00a0is largely due to a declining enrolment, and a\u00a0trend toward reallocating funds towards math and science. Despite the trend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinecolleges.net\/10-salient-studies-on-the-arts-in-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studies<\/a> continue to\u00a0suggest arts education plays a fundamental role in the development of children\u2019s cognitive and social skills, problem-solving,\u00a0and emotional regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that elementary schools in the Greater Toronto Area\u00a0were nearly three times more likely to employ\u00a0music teachers than schools in rural Ontario communities.<\/p>\n<p>The arts investment was made in consultation from recommendations by community arts educators, cultural organizations and cultural industry leaders at a roundtable forum co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport held in October 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Ministry of Education has partnered with Music Canada to invest in a musical instrument refurbishment program which aims to refurbish and restore musical instruments in Ontario&#8217;s publicly funded schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":53761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14761,36,39,3693],"tags":[387,2302,19300],"yst_prominent_words":[10028,10459,19285,7012,8484,19303,19302,19292,19286,6616,19306,6735,7060,19297,8798,19299,8005,19291,18927,19294],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/chuttersnap-139481-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-dZ6","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53765,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions\/53765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53760"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}