ASCD Inservice: Educators Advise Fed's Role in Well-Rounded Education

ASCD Inservice: Educators Advise Fed's Role in Well-Rounded Education

Educators Advise Fed's Role in Well-Rounded Education

"We should be promoting collaboration among the disciplines, not competition," advised Bronx Prep Arts educator Kate Quarfordt at today's Capitol Hill briefing on consensus recommendations for how the federal government can better support all the disciplines, not just math and language arts.

Although Obama's FY11 budget request includes a $38.9 million (or 17%) increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics, the administration proposes to combine eight subject-specific grant programs into a single competitive grant program.

Disciplines would compete against each other to receive funds from the $265 million pot of money allocated under "A Well-Rounded Education" on the proposed FY11 budget.

In response to this, and opportunities to reinvent ESEA post-NCLB, more than 20 major organizations, from across disciplines have offered consensus