BT Vancouver: VSB Strings Program Saved

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Meanwhile some better education news this morning for Vancouver music students. The Vancouver School Board has come up with a plan to save the elementary Band and Strings program. It's been on the chopping block due to the VSB's budget shortfall but the board could keep it, by using over $500,000 in holdback funding from the province.



"We hope that the board hears that the need for the proposed programs, that the programs that are proposed in their cuts. We hope they do find other ways, but we do understand the fiscal pressures that they're under."...