Prop. 28 is a sensible ballot initiative that will fund music education across the state, particularly in disadvantaged schools — without raising taxes.

Arts classes introduce children to culture and offer a path to careers in architecture and design, film, television and technology. The Press Democrat recommends a yes vote on Proposition 28.

Students from low-income backgrounds who receive an arts education are less likely to drop out of school, more likely to receive a degree and more inclined to pursue a career…We join [supporters] in recommending a yes vote on Proposition 28.

This ballot measure would create a dedicated funding stream for art and music education not by raising taxes, but by requiring the state to match 1 percent of California’s prekindergarten-through-12th-grade school dollars from the general fund.

[Students] deserve to have an enriched education that might otherwise be available only to students whose parents can pay for private instruction in the arts.

Just as math teaches [students] two plus two and how to get along in life, the arts teach them how to have empathy, how to be better people, how to have confidence and interact.”

[Prop 28] gives voters the opportunity to bring music to the classroom. Let’s lift up our civic voices and sing out a hit for California’s students.