Arts Education for All Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Arts Education for All Act embeds arts education into several federal education statutes. Child Care and Development Block Grant quality activities would include training on key programmatic strategies such as arts-integrated instruction across language, literacy, math, science, and social studies. State Every Student Succeeds Act plans must describe how they will offer varied arts experiences, integrate arts into curriculum, increase arts educators, partner with teaching artists, make arts instruction sequential and standards-based, target schools serving low-income students, students with disabilities, English learners, and students of color, and expand afterschool and summer arts programs. State report cards must publish arts course offerings, pupil-teacher ratios, instructional time, participation, and certification data. School improvement plans must evaluate arts courses and staff credentials, and local agencies must support arts teacher certification pathways plus professional development for arts teachers and classroom teachers integrating the arts.
Who Benefits and How
Students in high-poverty schools benefit because states must focus on arts classes serving low-income students, students with disabilities, English learners, and students of color. Arts educators benefit from federal support for certification pathways, professional development, and increased arts-teacher staffing. Teaching artists benefit from recognition as partners who train teachers to use creative techniques in core academic subjects. Families and advocates benefit from public report-card data on arts course availability, instructional time, student participation, and teacher certification.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State educational agencies must add arts-education strategies to ESSA plans and publish detailed arts-course data on report cards. Local educational agencies must support arts learning, arts-teacher professional development, and arts integration in core subjects. Schools identified for improvement must evaluate arts offerings and staff qualifications, then incorporate arts courses into school offerings. Child care agencies must adjust quality-improvement training language to include developmentally appropriate arts-integrated strategies.
Key Provisions
- Adds arts-integrated learning strategies to Child Care and Development Block Grant quality training language.
- Requires state ESSA plans to describe arts education offerings, curriculum integration, arts educator staffing, teaching-artist partnerships, and afterschool or summer arts access.
- Requires state report cards to disclose arts course offerings, pupil-teacher ratios, instructional time, participation, and teacher certification data.
- Directs school improvement and local education programs to include arts-course evaluations, certification pathways, and professional development.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Integrates arts education into early childhood, state education plans, local education plans, school report cards, school improvement, and teacher professional development under federal education law.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Arts Education, Teacher Workforce
Primary Purpose
Integrates arts education into early childhood, state education plans, local education plans, school report cards, school improvement, and teacher professional development under federal education law.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Students in high-poverty schools
- Arts educators
- Teaching artists
- Families seeking arts data
Identified Costs
- State educational agencies
- Local educational agencies
- School improvement teams
- Child care quality agencies
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Bonamici (for herself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Pingree, Ms. Leger …
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Arts educators, Local educational agencies, State educational agencies
Positive-direction: Arts educators, Students in high-poverty schools
Negative-direction: Local educational agencies, State educational agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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