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Lippert, Cindy – Teaching Music, 1999
Discusses the events leading up to the development of the new arts education program for the Sarasota Country School District in Florida. Addresses the work of the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts, its role in developing the arts program, and the interactions between the community and the school district. (CMK)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Middle Schools
Hamilton, Wilma – Teaching Music, 1999
Addresses the Sarasota County school district's decision to eliminate the arts programs in the elementary and middle schools. Discusses the efforts by the school district in rescuing the arts in the Sarasota schools and the superintendent's idea for creating the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts that is working for world-class arts…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Budgeting, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
Speer, Tibbett L. – American School Board Journal, 1997
Describes recent efforts to combat the downward spiral of music programs in American schools. Increasing enrollments in arts education coupled with financial downsizing have spurred music educators and concerned constituents to fight for inclusion of fine arts programs in school curricula. (LMI)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fine Arts
Rodgers, Bruce E. – Teaching Music, 1999
Describes the community of Sarasota County in Florida (Tampa) as one in which the arts are highly valued. Explains that the Sarasota County School Board eliminated the arts program devastating Sarasota County and the surrounding areas. Introduces three articles that discuss the elimination and renewal of Sarasota County's arts program. (CMK)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Role, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
Rodgers, Bruce E. – Teaching Music, 1999
Addresses the role of the professional arts community in reestablishing the arts programs in the Sarasota County's schools and their interaction with the school district. Identifies how the Arts Education Task Force, a committee of arts organizations in Sarasota County, assisted in the development of the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Role, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
