Fund$ for the Imagination Many public schools have significantly reduced or completely cut funding for art education programs. States have cut their arts budgets by $93 million in the past two years. Art education budgets could reach the lowest in a decade.(Newsweek) In President Bush's 2004-2005 budget proposal, 38 education programs were "slated for extinction", including a $35 million Arts in Education program. (Fram AP) Officials at state or city levels may feel the need for art …showed first 75 words of 918 total…

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