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NASAA Notes: March 2011

March
2011

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State to State
March 4, 2011

Pennsylvania: Teaching Artists and Arts Education Organization Webinars

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) has initiated a series of free arts education webinars. The series began with a session designed to help constituents apply to PCA for teacher-artist partnership and long-term residency…
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March 4, 2011

Mississippi: Moving toward the Art of Good Health

The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) recently received $125,000 to extend the reach of its Moving toward the Art of Good Health (MTAGH) initiative, which embeds ballroom dancing into 6th-grade health or physical education classes. In…
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Legislative Update
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Thomas L. Birch
March 4, 2011

House Cuts NEA 2011 Funds, Action Moves to Senate; Obama Asks for NEA Cut in 2012

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate continue to negotiate funding for the 2011 fiscal year. The first week in March, both chambers passed another short-term continuing resolution to extend funding for the current fiscal…
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Executive Director's Column
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Jonathan Katz
March 4, 2011

NASAA Communication: Timely and Relevant

NASAA’s ambition is to be the primary source of the most valuable information available to state arts agency leaders. Toward that end, we consider the relevance, accuracy, frequency and ease of access of news that…
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Research on Demand
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Angela Han
March 4, 2011

Per Capita Spending and Ranking, Appropriations Histories, and Other Funding Questions

As a national source of information on public arts funding, NASAA provides a knowledge network and a fact base to help state arts agencies make informed policy decisions and put their own state’s needs and…
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