marching band

This year, thanks to a new Florida law, high school students can now satisfy both their arts and physical education credits if they're in marching band for two years. WLRN reporters went to Charles W. Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines to watch students spend long summer days practicing to perform at a high level.

For a week this past summer, the football field at Booker T. Washington High School was home to a marching band larger than any the school itself had seen…

Some 200 young people from schools throughout Broward and Miami-Dade are lined up on a football field while instructions come over the loudspeaker from a…