George Clinton is honored at the Avon Avenue Elementary School in Newark, March 17. Funk pioneer George Clinton returned, March 17, to Newark’s Avon Avenue School, which he attended in his youth, for a ceremony in which the Pre-K to Eighth Grade school’s music room was renamed the George Clinton Music Room. The room now includes a mural of him as well. In addition, more than $5000 worth of equipment was donated to the school through Clinton’s partnership with the music companies Fender and JBL. “Glad to be back at my own school, where I first got started at,” Clinton said, in the middle of a p…