Parents for Arts Education

We have to stop viewing education as career building versus skill building! This generation doesn’t get to pick their careers at age 18 (especially not in high school and some cases middle school!) because we don’t know what the careers are going to be. They need to build skills that apply to everything. This is why our founder did a TEDx talk titled “AI Can’t Replace This: Why Arts Education Matters” and started Parents for Arts Education and .
Fine arts has been teaching creativity, collaboration, communication, and grit long before anyone called them human skills. A degree is any of these programs ensures you have the skills a computer can never replace.

Join us in this fight we are looking to expand our board and regional ambassadors!!

The Department of Education has proposed a new “accountability” system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.

The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provide students with information about the costs and economic prospects of their intended degree programs while, as the name implies, holding those programs accountable for their graduates’ outcomes. The framework would apply across higher education, and programs whose graduates fail to meet its earnings benchmark in two out of three years could lose eligibility for federal student loans.

Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/higher-ed-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-arts-education-1234788169/

Advocacy moments often happen unexpectedly.

In quick conversations, passing comments or casual assumptions about music learning. Having simple, confident responses ready can completely shift the direction of the conversation.

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Great ideas to bring more awareness (and fun!) to the masses about the importance of hands on music experiences

Austin area…. Come support this great event and cause on Saturday at 10:30

Making these types of performance opportunities available for all is so important and needs all of our support.


American Artists Project

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Celebrate the graduates who stayed involved in fine arts and the parents who stood by them. “They’re Going to Stand Out” is a heartfelt tribute and a call to shift the national conversation about arts education. Read the full piece and share your family's story as well. Tag us in your graduation photos and let's celebrate all these graduates across the country. https://wix.to/mniwOzI

They're Going to Stand Out A celebration for every fine arts parent this graduation season, and an invitation to help change the national conversationEvery spring, as I see posts about graduations across the country, I think about the parents who held the line.The ones who sat through the "have you thought about something mor...

The Rock Solid podcast from the Round Rock Chamber featuring our very own Trina Martin dropped today. Go check it out!

Rock Solid Podcast 1 like, 1 comment. "The Fight to Save Arts Education in Texas | Trina Martin on the Rock Solid Podcast"