From Judy Woodruff at PBS Newshour:
Arts Education
Grantmakers in the Arts holds arts education as one of its core funding focus areas. GIA is committed to invigorate funding and support for arts education within federal policy and defend that every resident has access to the arts as part of a well-rounded, life-long education. In 2012, GIA formed the Arts Education Funders Coalition (AEFC), an interest group within GIA, to address identified needs in comprehensive arts education and to strengthen communication and networking among arts education funders. Advised by a committee of Coalition members, GIA engaged the services of Washington, DC-based Penn Hill Group, a firm with education policy expertise and experience working with diverse education groups to research, develop, and promote educational policy strategies.
Most recently, GIA worked with Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) on the development of the Arts Education for All Act, the broadest arts education policy bill ever introduced in Congress.
In Spring 2021, GIA influenced the U.S. Department of Education to highlight the importance of equitable access to arts and culture to the process of reopening schools and to make explicit how racialized this access was prior to the pandemic and that addressing this inequity is essential to effective reopening.
Grantmakers in the Arts is delighted that in 2020 Congress passed the Supporting Older Americans Act, including our recommendations that the Administration on Aging include the arts in the issues to be identified and addressed and be included among supportive services for older Americans.
GIA has successfully lobbied to include arts-related provisions in the Child Care for Working Families Act, which proposes to better help low-income families pay for childcare and expand high-quality state preschool options.
GIA is extremely proud of our work over the past several years on raising the visibility of the arts in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in its legislative form. GIA and Penn Hill Group continue these advocacy efforts around the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), guiding GIA members and their grantees in advocating for new or expanded arts programs at their local schools and districts.
February 4, 2014 by Steve
The Wallace Foundation has announced a five-year, $24-million initiative that seeks to learn how districts can improve the effectiveness of principal supervisors so they can better help principals improve teaching and learning in schools.
January 16, 2014 by Steve
The Wallace foundation has published a listing of the reports most frequently downloaded in 2013. Many of these reports were focused on school leadership (the link between the position of the principal and student achievement, in particular). Most of the reports that made the list were published prior to 2013.
January 14, 2014 by Steve
The attached .pdf file is an overview of education and related funding under the FY 2014 omnibus appropriations bill that was released by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on January 13. The memo provides a summary of specific education-related funding and policy provisions in the bill, as well as a chart on page 4 comparing funding levels for selected programs to the FY 2013 pre- and post-sequester numbers.
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November 12, 2013 by admin
Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts is a new report from The Wallace Foundation that draws on hundreds of interviews with young people, their families, leaders of exemplary programs and others nationwide. It offers some answers, including 10 principles for developing effective programming. The report's authors—Denise Montgomery, Peter Rogovin and Nero Persaud—will present their research in a free webinar on Thursday, November 14.
November 12, 2013 by admin
November 2013, 134 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org.
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Overview of the Continuing Resolution and Debt Limit Legislation (78 Kb)
September 24, 2013 by Steve
If Congress is unable to pass a continuing resolution (CR) by September 30, 2013, the federal government may go into a government shutdown. Attached is a memo that provides background information on what happens during a government shutdown, as well as how a government shutdown may affect the major programs areas of the Department of Education.
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September 16, 2013 by admin
Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, George W. Noblit, Gilda L. Sheppard, and Thomas Barone. 2013, 258 pages, Routledge
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