$4.3-Million Grant to Promote Arts Education
The Annenberg Foundation is announcing today a $4.3-million challenge grant to inject arts education into elementary and secondary school reform.
The grant will be matched in part locally by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the arm of the Getty Museum committed to disseminating arts instruction techniques.
The philosophy behind the Annenberg grant, part of an ongoing $500-million project to foster school reform, is that arts instruction is an important part of that reform--a role that was minimized as budget cuts decimated art and music programs in public schools.
In a statement, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley lauded the Annenberg Foundation for “recognizing the role arts education can play in reforming schools through its capacity to develop students’ thinking, reasoning and problem-solving skills.”
The money will pay for teacher training, art curriculum and related reforms at schools that are to be chosen by the National Arts Education Consortium, an association of six regional institutes formed by the Getty Center in 1988.
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