MEDIA ADVISORY for Friday, Jan. 29, 2020
WHAT: More than 370 kindergarten through fifth grade students at the CHIME Institute’s Arnold Schwarzenegger Charter Elementary School, which has extensive ties to Cal State Northridge, are going to run, walk and roll their wheelchairs around their school track in an effort to save their music teacher’s job. They are asking their friends and family members to support their efforts by pledging a flat amount or an amount per lap.
Braving rain and mud last year, the elementary school students ran, walked and rolled their wheelchairs around the school track and raised more than $58,000 in pledges and donations, most in $10 and $20 amounts. They were able to save their music program through June 2010.
But the state’s budget situation in many ways has gotten worse, and the music program’s future in the 2010-2011 school year, and beyond, is threatened again.
WHERE: CHIME Institute’s Arnold Schwarzenegger Charter Elementary School
19722 Collier St.
Woodland Hills, CA
WHEN: 1:15 to 2:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, 2010
WHO: More than 370 kindergarten through fifth grade students