HR 2485
Arts Education for All Act
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Bill overview
The Arts Education for All Act aims to expand access to arts education in elementary and secondary schools. It modifies existing legislation, including the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to require states to incorporate arts education into their strategies for improving student achievement. The bill also provides funding and support for arts educators, partnerships with arts organizations, and the integration of the arts into other subjects, while also addressing arts education within juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs and educational research.
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- Requires states to include arts education as part of their plans to improve student achievement under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
- Modifies the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act to prioritize training for child care providers on developmentally appropriate strategies including the arts.
- Mandates the inclusion of key programmatic strategies related to nutrition, physical activity, and screen media in child care programs.
- Directs states to increase the number of arts educators and arts courses, particularly in schools with high percentages of low-income students.
- Supports partnerships between schools and specialized teaching artists.
- Requires school report cards to include information on arts courses offered.
- Encourages schools to evaluate and incorporate arts courses into their offerings.
- Directs State and local agencies to coordinate services with arts agencies and organizations to support juvenile reentry.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 2485
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To expand arts education, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Arts Education for All Act
.
The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) is amended—
in section 658G(b)(1), by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:
nutrition and physical activity;
recommended practices for age-appropriate exposure to screen media; and
the integration and utilization of instructional methods to assist learning across disciplines, including methods that use the arts, language, literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.).
Each State’s plan shall describe how the State educational agency will—
support and encourage the offering of a variety of arts education experiences to students as part of the State educational agency’s overall strategy to improve student achievement in the subjects described in section 8101(52);
integrate arts education instruction into the curriculum;
utilize partnerships with specialized teaching artists to train teachers to augment creative thinking techniques into the instruction provided in math, reading, English language arts, science, and other subjects described in section 8101(52);
ensure that arts instruction provided in the State is standards-based, as applicable, and sequential with arts courses offered in the grades 6 through 12 building upon such courses offered in earlier grades;
Section 1112(b) (20 U.S.C. 6312(b)) is amended—
in paragraph (12), by striking and
at the end;
by redesignating paragraph (13) as paragraph (14); and
by inserting after paragraph (12) the following:
how the local educational agency will support learning in the arts and encourage the use of the arts education to improve student achievement consistent with section 1111(g)(5); and
Section 1111(h)(1)(C) (20 U.S.C. 6311(h)(1)(C)) is amended—
by redesignating clause (xiv) as (xv); and
by inserting after clause (xiii) the following:
Information on arts courses, including—
the number of, range, and sequence of course offerings;
the average pupil-to-teacher ratio in such courses;
the average amount of instructional time in such courses; and
for each semester, the percentage (in the aggregate and disaggregated by high-poverty compared to low-poverty schools, which for the purpose of this subclause, means schools in the top quartile of poverty and the bottom quartile of poverty in the State) of—
schools offering arts courses;
students taking arts courses; and
arts courses taught by arts teachers with full State certification or licensure.
Section 1111(d)(2)(B) (20 U.S.C. 6311(d)(2)(B)) is amended—
in clause (iv), by striking ; and
and inserting a semicolon;
by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); and
by inserting after clause (iv) the following:
provides for an evaluation of the arts courses offered at such school during the school day and the certification, training and skills of staff that are teaching such courses including teaching artists; and
based on such evaluation, incorporate the offering of arts courses into the offerings of such school; and
Section 1415(a)(2)(B)(ii) (20 U.S.C. 6435(a)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by inserting access to the arts and arts education and
after improving
.
Section 2103(b)(3) (20 U.S.C. 6613(b)(3)) is amended—
in subparagraph (O), by striking ; and
and inserting a semicolon;
by redesignating subparagraph (P) as subparagraph (Q); and
by inserting after subparagraph (O) the following:
carrying out activities to increase pathways to obtain rigorous, high-quality teacher certification or licensure for individuals seeking to become teachers of the arts; and
Section 2103 (20 U.S.C. 6613) is further amended by inserting at the end the following:
In carrying out the programs and activities described under subsection (a), a local educational agency shall provide professional development for teachers of the arts, as appropriate, to fulfill the needs of such agency and the schools of such agency.
In carrying out the programs and activities described under subsection (a), a local educational agency shall provide professional development for teachers to integrate the arts into their instruction in math, reading, English language arts, science, and other subjects described in section 8101(52).
in paragraph (13), by striking ; and
;
in paragraph (14), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and
by adding at the end the following:
, including arts educationafter
areas.
Section 223(a) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633(a)) is amended—
in paragraph (32) by striking and
at the end,
in paragraph (33) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
, and
by adding at the end the following:
The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended in section 2976(b)(4)—
by striking ; and
in subparagraph (A);
after subparagraph (A), by inserting the following:
use arts education programs and services to better facilitate reentry and reduce recidivism and connect offenders to educational opportunities and employment after reentry into the community; and
by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C).
Section 133 of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9533) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
by striking ; and
at the end of subparagraph (10)(D);
by redesignating subparagraph (11) as subparagraph (12); and
by inserting after paragraph (10) the following:
carry out research on the use of the arts and arts education that is rigorous, peer reviewed and large scale to determine which methods and uses of the arts and arts education are most effective, cost efficient and able to be applied, duplicated, and scaled up for the use in elementary and secondary classrooms, including in low-performing schools; and
in subsection (c)(2), by adding at the end the following:
Use of the arts and arts education in improving elementary and secondary education.
Section 153(a)(1) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543(a)(1)) is amended—
in subparagraph (N), by striking ; and
and inserting a semicolon;
by redesignating subparagraph (O) as subparagraph (P); and
by inserting after subparagraph (N), the following:
access to, the integration of and the inclusion of arts education; and
Section 303(b) of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (20 U.S.C. 9622(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
The Assessment Board shall select the arts as a subject to be assessed under this subsection, at the same frequency and in the same grades (at a minimum) as such assessment was scheduled prior to July 24, 2021.