Elevating the Arts to Improve Student Achievement
RICHMOND (February 20, 2019) — It’s a Friday in December, but Lisa Perkinson’s dance class at Binford Middle School isn’t taking it easy.
The students—some of whom had never had a dance class until they started school here less than three years ago—are practicing solos for upcoming auditions for the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, an arts magnet serving more than a dozen districts in Virginia.