Arts in Education Programs

Today we're at the Omni Shoreham hotel listening to panels, meeting with the Michigan and Ohio state captains, and finalizing our plans for tomorrow. One of the panels earlier this morning was titled Arts in Education programs. A lot of the panel was taking about funding for arts education and the impact of No Child Left Behind on arts in public education. I think one of the more interesting points brought up in the panel was about waivers for No Child Left Behind. This is a new concept that started in the fall. States can apply for waivers for sections of No Child Left Behind, and say how they will supplement those sections and assess them. Eleven states were approved for this in the fall, and the second batch of waivers were approved this year. I think it will be really interesting to see if enough states apply fr waivers and are successful without certain provisions of No Child Left Behind, what the future of this piece of legislation will be.