Hello State Education Policy Network (SEPN) member:

Quarterly Call Rescheduled – Due to our arts education staff transition, I’m rescheduling this quarter’s SEPN call to September 14^th, the last day of National Arts Education Week, and following the Arts Education Partnership conference. Our next call is currently scheduled for Thursday, August 15^th. The content from the February quarterly call is in the SEPN Google Drive folder here.

The open Arts Education Program Manager position is now posted on our website. Please share with your networks and arts ed colleagues…closing date is May 6^th.

Summary:

The Arts Education Program Manager is a member of the Government & Public Affairs Department, which is responsible for promoting public policies that advance the arts and arts education. The Program Manager will oversee the professional programs and services for Americans for the Arts’ members including arts education networks and their elected Arts Education Advisory Council. The Program Manager will also work cross-departmentally at Americans for the Arts to ensure connectivity of arts education through shared programming with all departments and will assist the Vice President in identifying funding sources and earned income opportunities on an ongoing basis. The Program Manager will implement field education programming and communications directed to empower arts education supporters to become effective advocates. The Program Manager will build and maintain strategic partnerships to implement initiatives to bring public awareness to the impact of arts education for the field.

New State Arts Education Data Reporting Abilities -- The Education Commission of the States, the trusted source for comprehensive knowledge and unbiased resources on education policy issues, and the National Endowment for the Arts have released a 50-State Comparison of Arts Education Data Collection and Reporting. This report assesses the capacity of all 50 states and the District of Columbia to identify and report on arts education data already in their statewide education data systems. The comparison reveals which states collect or publish data on student enrollments in arts courses or teachers assigned to those courses. It aims to inform state and national conversations about how to make more information about arts education publicly available—including data that states probably collect but do not make public. Americans for the Arts chairs the Technical Working Group for this initiative. SEPN has been briefed on this initiative during previous 2018 quarterly calls.

Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. Thank you.

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Narric W. Rome

Vice President of Government Affairs & Arts Education
Americans for the Arts

1000 Vermont Ave NW 6^th Floor

Washington, DC 20005-4940

202.371.2830 x2060

www.AmericansForTheArts.org

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