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99 CIS S 43131
TITLE: ESEA: Arts
Education and Magnet Schools
CIS-NO: 99-S431-31
SOURCE:
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-84
DATE: June 29, 1999
LENGTH: iii+56 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-84
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Hearing to review Department of Education
assistance to State and local agencies for elementary and
secondary education programs for arts education, in connection with upcoming
reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA).
Supplementary material (p. 52-56) includes submitted
statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ
aid programs, extension and revision, arts educ issues
DESCRIPTORS:
ARTS AND THE
HUMANITIES; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION;
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-S431-31 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 29, 1999 p. 4-52
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
SYKES,
JOHN (President, VH1 Save the Music Foundation)
GORDON,
DEREK (Vice President, Education, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
DURANTE, TOM (Arts Supervisor, Arlington County, Va.,
Public Schools)
KEMP, JOHN D. (President and CEO, VSA
arts)
CANADA, BENJAMIN O. (Superintendent of Schools,
Portland, Oreg)
RICE, DANIELLE (Senior Curator, Education,
Philadelphia Museum of Art)
BURKS, SANDRA B. (Director,
Magnet Schools, Roanoke City, Va., Public School Board)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Importance of ESEA funding
for arts education in elementary and secondary schools;
overview of Kennedy Center arts education programs; need for emphasis on and
improvement of arts education; issues involved in ESEA reauthorization.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ
aid programs, extension and revision, arts educ issues
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION; KENNEDY CENTER
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
