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Article: Monterey County Office of Education Launches California Arts Advocacy Toolkit.
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- May 20, 2008
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MCOE Encourages Schools to Advocate, Rebuild and Teach Arts in Education
SALINAS, Calif. -- The Monterey County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Nancy Kotowski, announced today that the Monterey County Office of Education has launched the California Arts Advocacy Toolkit, a resource available for all California schools to advocate, rebuild and teach arts in education.
There is a proven recognition that the 4th R, the arts, along with reading, writing and arithmetic, teach children lifelong skills. Yet, a recent SRI International study called "An Unfinished Canvas" reported that fully 89 percent of K-12 schools fail to offer a standards-based course of ...