YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityAverage Household ImpactCriminal Justice & Due ProcessPublic schools would report how much arts education they actually offer — and national arts testing would resume.
Transparency & Accountability
- Arts data on school report cards — Course counts, class sizes, and instructional time reported
- Poverty-gap reporting — Arts access broken out by top and bottom school poverty quartiles
- National arts assessment — NAEP required to test the arts again at pre-2021 frequency
- Federal arts education research — Peer-reviewed studies on effectiveness required
Average Household Impact
- Arts course access — State and district plans must describe how offerings expand
- Arts teacher training — Districts required to provide professional development
Criminal Justice & Due Process
- Reentry programming — Arts education added as an allowed recidivism-reduction service
- Juvenile justice coordination — State plans must coordinate with arts agencies
The details
Public schools would have to track and publish what arts education they actually provide. State report cards would list the number of arts courses, class sizes, and instructional time. They would also break out the share of schools offering arts by high-poverty and low-poverty quartiles. The share of arts courses taught by fully certified arts teachers would be reported too. State and district education plans would need to describe how they expand arts access. Districts would have to provide professional development for arts teachers. The National Assessment of Educational Progress would again test students in the arts, at the frequency scheduled before July 24, 2021. Juvenile justice and prisoner reentry programs could also use arts education to reduce repeat offenses.
Congressional Summary
Arts Education for All ActThis bill expands arts education and programming for children in early education, K-12 students, and juveniles and adults in the criminal justice system.Specifically, the bill allows Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to be used for additional activities, including arts programming.Additionally, the bill addresses arts programming in elementary and secondary schools bydirecting each state educational agency to include information on arts programming in its state plan, including how it will integrate arts education instruction into the curriculum and increase the number of arts teachers in schools;requiring state report cards to include information on arts courses;requiring local educational agency (LEA) plans to describe how the LEA will encourage the use of arts education to improve student achievement; andallowing certain funds to be used for professional development for arts teachers.The bill directs the National Center for Education Research to carry out research on the use of arts and arts education in elementary and secondary schools, including in low-performing schools. Further, the National Center for Education Statistics must compile data on arts education.The National Assessment of Educational Progress must include a specified arts assessment.The bill requires a state's juvenile justice and delinquency plan to describe how the state will coordinate services and activities for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention with arts agencies and arts organizations. Additionally, grants for adult offender reentry demonstration projects may be used for facilitating arts education.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-31
- Date Added
- 2026-08-07
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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