updated 03/18/2025
Dive deeper into music education advocacy with these tools. Familiarize yourself with federal, state, and local education funding and engage in policies related to music education. Funding can be the most challenging aspect of creating and sustaining a school music program. Whether you are a school district administrator or community member, you have the power to equip yourself with the knowledge to advocate for policy change and funding for music education.
K-12 Funding Toolkit: A Strategic Guide for States
Created by the Education Commission of the States, this funding toolkit offers a strategic guide for reforming or redesigning state K-12 funding to ensure students and educators have the necessary resources to reach education goals. Explore five guiding principles for state leaders to strive toward and examples of what these principles look like in practice.
NAMM Foundation Grassroots Advocacy Guide
The SupportMusic Community Action Kit is a free community resource developed and supported by NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants. The information provided in this kit can get you started with music education advocacy, and there are tools to help your efforts – press release templates, meeting presentations, sample advocacy letters, and more. Adapt the materials to your local situation and use them in your day-to-day efforts.
NAfME Advocacy Resource Center
To help you plan your teaching and support your music education advocacy efforts, NAfME (National Association for Music Education) offers the resources for funding, policy, and classroom instruction.
Title II, Part A
Title II, Part A – Supporting Effective Instruction State Grant Program – is the most significant source of federal funding supporting professional learning for educators and leaders at the school, district and state levels.
Title IV, Part A
Title IV, Part A is part of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, designed to ensure that districts have access to programs that foster safe and healthy students, provide students with a well-rounded education, and increase the effective use of technology in our nation’s schools.