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Vermont Arts Council urges statewide assessment, enforceable arts benchmarks
Summary
Susan Evans McClure, executive director of the Vermont Arts Council, told the House Education Committee on Feb. 3 that arts education needs a statewide assessment, minimum standards and updates to the Education Quality Standards to protect access, especially in rural schools.
Susan Evans McClure, executive director of the Vermont Arts Council, told the Vermont House Education Committee on Thursday, Feb. 3, that the state should conduct a statewide assessment of arts education, adopt minimum standards, and update the Education Quality Standards to include enforceable benchmarks to protect students' access to the arts.
McClure said the Arts Council distributes state, federal and private funds, citing recent grantmaking of about $3,200,000 to 131 individuals and 235 organizations last year, and that demand outstrips supply: "over the past 5 years, we've only been able to support about 45% of the applications that we receive." She described the council's Artist in Schools program, early-childhood grants and training for teaching artists as central to sustaining arts learning across Vermont.
The request for formal data collection was a central part of McClure's presentation. She said the council is…
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