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NASAA Notes: June 2011

June
2011

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State to State
June 8, 2011

Oklahoma: Gang Prevention Partnership

An Oklahoma City Police Department program is using the arts to stop kids from joining gangs. Through a partnership with the Oklahoma Arts Council (OAC), the Oklahoma City Police Department’s gang prevention program—Family Awareness and…
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June 8, 2011

Tennessee: Value Plus Schools Evaluation Report

The Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC) recently announced the release of Changing Tennessee Schools through Arts Integration, the evaluation results of TAC’s Value Plus Schools program. The report synthesizes four years of research about student achievement,…
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June 8, 2011

Michigan: Pure Michigan Radio Spots

The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) has teamed up with the Pure Michigan tourism advertising campaign to produce a new radio commercial aimed at promoting the arts in Michigan. The one-minute ad…
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Legislative Update
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Thomas L. Birch
June 8, 2011

Congress Begins the Long Haul toward the 2012 Budget

Typically, the Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives begins drafting its legislation in early June and sends the funding bills to the floor for votes by the middle of the month. The Senate…
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Executive Director's Column
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Jonathan Katz
June 8, 2011

Fallacies of the Kansas Veto

Governor Sam Brownback’s May 28 veto of the Kansas Arts Commission’s fiscal year 2012 budget proves that he does not recognize what every other state and U.S. territory has recognized: that the expressive life of…
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Research on Demand
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Angela Han
June 8, 2011

State Arts Agency Fact Sheet: Federal-State Partnership

NASAA’s new fact sheet, Return on Investment: The Federal Government, States and the Arts, provides a one-page overview of the relationship between the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and state arts agencies. Collaboration with…
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Did You Know?
June 8, 2011

Visual and Performing Arts Grads Are Happily Employed

The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) at Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research addresses the previously unanswered question of what happens to alumni of performing and visual arts in its report Forks in the…
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