Current Status of Funding and Education

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting two articles discussing the current state of arts education funding and the condition of education.

Arts Education Appropriations Terminated in House Committee
Take Action on AIE For the sixth straight year, the House Appropriations Committee has proposed eliminating funding for the Department of Education's Arts in Education programs. As in the past, we will rely on the Senate to fully restore funding for these important programs. In February, the administration proposed zeroing out the program, and on June 13, the House Appropriations Committee followed suit and proposed terminating the funding in the FY 2007 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. This appropriations bill is highly contentious, and the latest intelligence says that it will not be considered on the House floor for several weeks, due to many other legislative complications. For more information about arts education appropriations, please contact Director of Federal Affairs Narric Rome at nrome@artsusa.org.

The Condition of Education 2006
This annual report summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The 2006 report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education and a special analysis on international assessments. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2006 print edition includes 50 indicators in five main areas: (1) participation in education; (2) learner outcomes; (3) student effort and educational progress; (4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education; and (5) the contexts of postsecondary education. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006071

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