Arts Education Funding Cut in Two-Week Budget Fix
Tim Mikulski Although Congress quickly avoided a government shutdown this week, arts education funding somehow managed to get caught up in the two-week continuing resolution Band-Aid that was passed by...
View ArticleThe Trickle-Down Effect of Federal Arts Education Policy
Narric Rome Not long into my tenure at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton administration, I came to understand the limits of what the federal government can do for K-12 education. At...
View ArticleArts Education Policy: Without Clout, There Will Be No Change
Robert L. Lynch At Americans for the Arts, we see an opportunity to advance national arts education policy by working in a very specific way. We focus on forging strategic alliances with key leaders in...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Proposal Provides Direction for Future of Arts Education
Narric Rome On October 19 and 20, after many years of inaction, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee began marking up the Senate version of the Elementary and...
View ArticleUPDATE: U.S. Senate Proposal Provides Direction for Future of Arts Education
Narric Rome Last month, I wrote a post that described the work of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on a bill reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education...
View ArticlePublic Art & Transportation Enhancements: Congressional Action Update (from...
Liesel Fenner As Americans are well aware, Congress is going through some significant policy discussions regarding the proper role of government and federal funding. One particular program that funds...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Budget Request for the NEA: The Fine Print
Image from ArtAndSeek.net Yesterday, the Obama Administration released their fourth budget request covering all federal agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). We learned early...
View ArticleThe Arts Aren’t Red or Blue
Robert L. Lynch Every four years America gets another chance to make its voice heard. And every four years the American arts community, in a way, gets a bit of a fiscal makeover. How is that? Well, it...
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