- Duncan Blasts Ryan Budget Plan, from Education Week
- Duncan Defends New Spending, from Inside Higher Ed
- Is the Federal Education Stimulus Working?, from The Atlantic
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.
March 23, 2012 by Steve
March 23, 2012 by admin
44 pages, March 2012. The Education Policy and Leadership Center, 800 North Third Street, Suite 408, Harrisburg, PA, 17102, (717) 260-9900, www.aei-pa.org.
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- ED Program Helps Put Homeless Students on Right Track, from US Dept. of Education Homeroom blog.
- Tough Budget for Loans and Pell, from Inside Higher ED.
March 12, 2012 by Steve
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was keynote speaker at SXSWedu last week. You can read the text of his speech at www.ed.gov/news/speeches/new-platform-learning.
March 9, 2012 by admin
Download this .pdf chart that compares ESEA Proposals. Updated March 9, 2012.
February 14, 2012 by admin
From the Penn Hill Group
February 14, 2012
The FY 2013 budget request was submitted to Congress by the Obama Administration on February 13, 2012. Below is a summary and analysis of the portion of this budget request pertaining to the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
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FY 2013 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Education (184Kb)
March 5, 2012 by admin
The Penn Hill Group, with oversight from the Arts Education Funders Coalition advisory committee, will develop a comprehensive strategy that seeks to reinvigorate arts education in federal policy. A strategic plan, complete with messages, talking points, supporting research, and policy language, will be crafted, to arm arts champions with the tools to advocate effectively. This coalition is in the unique position to have fundamental impact on the federal arts education policy landscape.
March 5, 2012 by admin
Penn Hill Group is a bipartisan government relations firm located in Washington, D.C. With decades of Congressional, Administration and private sector experience, the members of Penn Hill Group provide clients with cutting-edge government relations, advocacy, policy development and analysis, communications, research, and strategic consulting support.
February 2, 2012 by admin
January 2012, 161 pages. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 618, Washington, DC 20506, (202) 682-5400, www.arts.gov
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