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Tuesday, Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In this newsletter, we spend a lot of time talking about school shutdowns, the challenges of distance learning, and the uneven path back to campus. All of those things are vitally important. But today we bring you a different kind of education story — one about rock ‘n’ roll. Before the pandemic, student attendance at th...

Print In the 2003 musical comedy “School of Rock,” Jack Black plays a wayward rock guitarist who takes a gig as a substitute teacher — and trains a class of brainy fifth-graders to play rock instruments, and eventually, compete in a local Battle of the Bands. By the movie’s end, the kids not only go home with the grand prize, but with a profound sense of purpose and belonging. Founded in 1998 by Philadelphia musician and philanthropist Paul Green, the real-life School of Rock is not your standard after-school music class: It’s a year-round program dedicated to teaching music through...