Indiana Coalition for the Arts Advocacy Day 2014 is January 27th!

If you are interested in attending Indiana Coalition for the Arts, Arts Advocacy Day event at the Indiana State Capitol, I can guarantee you an interesting day speaking with legislators and visiting with a cadre of arts advocates! See you in the Rotunda at 200 West Washington Street! If you are interested in attending and would like to contact me for more info you can reach me here: campak14@yahoo.com

Public Education Advocates voice their concerns inside the Indiana State Capitol last February, 20130

Why Are Public Schools Cash Strapped?

Why are many Indiana school corporations operating on their 2006 budget numbers?? Here's why:

Those of us who are familiar with the transformative power of fine arts experience understand there is a crisis in education today. Funding and viability of school fine arts programs go hand in hand. There is such a thing as quality and then there are qualities of quality. 

A cash strapped public school corporation who cuts their professional art teachers and re-institutes a program with a non-certified, non-credentialed adult who administrates the fine arts program is not a substitute for professional with bonafide experience as fine arts educator.

  "John F. Kennedy said: *A child miseducated is a child lost.
*Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
*For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal."

Should 1.3 Million Indiana Voters Be Concerned?

If Superintendent Ritz is concerned about her office, should the voters who elected her be concerned too?

Want To Talk About Advocacy? I'll Be Here....

.....at the AEAI State Conference, October 18-20, at the Marriott East in Indianapolis.

Money For New Bureaucracy But None For Schools? Media Blitz Today

Why is Governor Mike Pence spending 5 million dollars on Executive Order 13-21? Don't we already have a chief education officer elected by 1.3 million Hoosier Voters to attend to matters related to public education? For the first time in Indiana History, the Indiana State Board of Education will now be independent of the IDOE and will answer to...Governor Pence. What is Executive Order 13-21 really all about? This new agency is purely political with huge ramifications to hurt public education in Indiana.

Please consider joining me in a blitz to inform the media that this is not how democracy works. 

****TWITTER****

Gov. Pence: Did Supt. Ritz, Voters and General Assembly discuss new ed agency?

Northwest Indiana Times
https://twitter.com/nwi

South Bend Tribune 
https://twitter.com/SBTribune

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
https://twitter.com/JGfortwayne

Indianapolis Star 
https://twitter.com/indystar

Education Reform reporter Scott https://twitter.com/ScottElliott_IN

Friendlies and possible allies:

https://twitter.com/tomlobianco

https://twitter.com/Amoswtlcindy

https://twitter.com/nwi_DougRoss

https://twitter.com/kfrancisco

****Email****

Indy Star 
scott.elliott@indystar.com

Times of Northwest Indiana 
marc.chase@nwi.com

South Bend Tribune
sbtnews@sbtinfo.com

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
jgnews@jg.net

In An Attempt To Increase Creativity Development, China Officially Decreases High Stakes Testing On It's Children

This just in from Yong Zhao. Translation? The U.S. and China are trading education policy direction.

Stop This Madness!

The billions of dollars spent on politicians obsession with high stakes standardized testing is better spent on augmenting children's authentic learning experiences with extended fine arts learning, exploration into hands on science learning, smaller class sizes and improving the lives of 16 million children living under the poverty threshold in the World's richest country! Stop this madness!!!!