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THE NEWS MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC PRODUCTS RETAILERS<br />
July 2018<br />
Volume 35, No. 7<br />
Washington<br />
Capitals<br />
Advocacy Fly-In delegates treated<br />
warmly by politicians.<br />
By Brian Berk<br />
Like the Washington Capitals, who de-<br />
feated the Vegas Golden Knights last month<br />
for its first Stanley Cup victor y since its<br />
founding in 1974, NAMM delegates on May<br />
23 at the NAMM Advocacy D.C. Fly-In were<br />
definitely champions.<br />
For the most part, NAMM delegates’<br />
“ask” of politicians was simple: increase<br />
Every Student Succeeds Act funding for<br />
arts education from the current $1.1 billion<br />
to be fully funded at $1.65 billion. Consider-<br />
ing the enormity of the U.S. federal budget,<br />
an increase of $550 million isn’t much, to<br />
which the politicians NAMM delegates<a title="MSR 07 2018 (July) page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a852862a?page=1"> </a>
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