'Even before the onset of the pandemic, schools have been struggling with funding arts programming,' Dunkley says. —EKATERINA VOROBEY/Dreamstime/TNS
BEFORE running her own music education nonprofit, Portia Dunkley was a sixth-grade student in Miami who wanted to play the violin.
She rushed to her teacher to sign up for the music programme, but she wasn’t quick enough to get her pick.
