In The Buffalo Schools MUSE reaches a broad and highly neglected segment of the Buffalo community through its programs for children in schools and inner-city community centers. The District serves about 48,000 students. Its annual spring concert, MUSE-Fest , gets grassroots publicity through the schools, parent organizations, and church groups, as well as print, radio and television. This effort is part of a long term plan to disseminate the program first throughout this District, then to schools in other cities. MUSE is available to consult to groups in other districts.
Projects are in the planning stages in Albuquerque, Seattle and Cleveland.
Buffalo Board of Education Buffalo City School District Profile Buffalo, the second largest city in New York State, encompasses an area of approximately 48 square miles. Its population of approximately 323,857 is disbursed in such a manner that the city has retained strong ethnic concentrations in readily identifiable neighborhoods. 12.37 percent are handicapped as certified by the District Committee on the Handicapped. 64.7 percent are members of minority groups. More than 600 students with limited or no English language proficiency have arrived in the City Schools from outside the continental United States this year, and another 300 transferred from other districts or returned from stays in Puerto Rico.