Arts Education for All Act
This bill expands arts education and programming for children in early education, K-12 students, and juveniles and adults in the criminal justice system.
Specifically, the bill allows Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to be used for additional activities, including arts programming.
Additionally, the bill addresses arts programming in elementary and secondary schools by
The bill directs the National Center for Education Research to carry out research on the use of arts and arts education in elementary and secondary schools, including in low-performing schools. Further, the National Center for Education Statistics must compile data on arts education.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress must include a specified arts assessment.
The bill requires a state's juvenile justice and delinquency plan to describe how the state will coordinate services and activities for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention with arts agencies and arts organizations. Additionally, grants for adult offender reentry demonstration projects may be used for facilitating arts education.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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