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Harborfields Earns 3rd Straight Best Communities For Music Award

The award recognizes districts across the U.S. that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education.

The Harborfields Central School District has earned its third straight Best Communities For Music Award.
The Harborfields Central School District has earned its third straight Best Communities For Music Award. (Courtesy of Harborfields Central School District)

GREENLAWN, NY — The Harborfields Central School District has been honored as one of the Best Communities for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation for a third consecutive year, the school district announced. Harborfields is one of 738 school districts in the United States to win the award.

The designation is awarded to districts throughout the country that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education to their students.

The 2022 Best Communities program focused on celebrating schools and districts adapting, innovating and persevering in the face of change.

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“I can't say enough about how everybody in Harborfields – the Board of Education,
administration, staff, parents, students and the community as a whole – stands behind the
arts and demonstrates incredible commitment to supporting music education,” K-12 Music
Department Coordinator Dan Bilawsky said via news release. “While we've seen tremendous difficulties and weathered so many changes in the past two years, Harborfields has never wavered in its support of music in our schools.”

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