Monumental Governmental Funding for Music Making!

In November 2007, the English government allocated the equivalent of $660 million dollars toward getting the population singing (especially primary aged children) by 2011.  This is in addition to funding that was already in place in prior years.  See the Music Manifesto

An organization called SingUp! is training music teachers to inservice classroom teachers in how to engage all students in daily active music making.  This is a similar strategy to the courses the Center for Lifelong Music Making has been offering to Minneapolis Public Schools classroom teachers over the last three years, and at Hamline University starting this summer.