Last night, PBS NewsHour aired an interview of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman. The interview provides some good insight into his background and some important questions and answers about his role as NEA Chairman. Click below to watch the video.
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Thank you for this great interview! The Los Angeles Unified Schools have been building an elementary school arts program for the past 10 years, spending millions of dollars to grow the program. It is unique in that it provides teachers in all 4 art forms (Music, Dance, Theater and Visual Art.) But now the board is threatening to cut 50% of the teachers in the next school year, and the rest the following year, in order to save $14.8 million of a $480 Million shortfall in the budget. Our children and our society need arts education.
Mr. Landesman is ‘right on’ when he says that high standards are not elitist. High standards make everyone rise to the top. Isn’t that what the NCLB Education Act was supposed to be about?
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