What Constitutes an Arts-Rich School?
Submitted by Steve on January 9, 2014
A post from the Policy Analysis for California Education:
Access to education in visual art, music, theatre, and dance is varied and unequal across public schools in the United States. Yet the extent of this inequality is largely undocumented. In a recent report from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the committee concluded that policymakers lack a basic understanding of access to arts education because there is no required data collection of the courses schools offer.
We know that the students with the least opportunity to study the arts are low-income students or students of color, but how access varies from state to state remains unclear.