Advocacy in K-12 Music Education

Important to a good quality, standards-based music education is access to highly qualified, certificated music educators at all grade levels.  To learn more about what you can do to support music education which is manadated by law as part of the core curriculum in K-12 public schools, you can visit the following websites to learn more about research, events you can become involved with, or presentations you can do for your school district's administrators!

National Association for Music Education: http://www.menc.org/

International Society for Music Education: http://www.isme.org/

California Music Educators Association: http://www.calmusiced.com/

Los Angeles County Arts Commission - Arts for All: http://www.lacountyarts.org/artseducation.html

Music for All Foundation: http://www.musicforall.org/

Americans for the Arts: http://www.artsusa.org/

California Alliance for Arts Education: http://www.artsed411.org/

California Arts Council: http://www.cac.ca.gov/

1. The Ohio State University

http://tbdbitl.osu.edu/ 

2. The University of Michigan Marching Band

http://mmb.music.umich.edu/

3. University of Southern California

http://www.usc.edu/band

4. UCLA

http://www.uclaband.com

5. Louisiana State University

http://bands.lsu.edu

6. University of Miami

http://www.music.miami.edu/band

7. University of Wisconsin

http://www.badgerband.com

8. University of Texas

http://www.music.utexas.edu/longhornband

9. University of Alabama

http://www.mdb.ua.edu

10. University of Oregon

http://omb.uoregon.edu