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Arts Education Sub. SB311 and HB565 Action Alert
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ACTION ALERT - GRADUATION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ARTS
November 20, 2006
BACKGROUND
Substitute SB 311 (Gardner) and Substitute HB 565 (Setzer) regarding the Ohio Core graduation requirements were introduced in the Ohio Senate Education Committee (chaired by Senator Padgett) and the Ohio House Education Committee (chaired by Representative Setzer) on November 14, 2006. Several changes were made in the bills but a separate graduation requirement in the fine arts was not included. The two unit foreign language requirement in the bills as introduced was removed as a graduation requirement.
The substitute bills now require students who complete the Ohio Core to earn five credits consisting of one or any combination of foreign language, the fine arts, business, technology, and career-technical education. This provision increases the elective choices for students from four choices in current law (foreign languages, fine arts, and business/technology) to five by adding career-technology units as electives.
Please contact Governor Taft and your representatives in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate BEFORE NOVEMBER 28, 2006 with the following requests regarding the "Ohio Core" graduation requirements:
REQUEST TO LAWMAKERS
1) Please amend Sub. SB 311 (Gardner) and Sub. HB 565 (Setzer) to add a one credit Carnegie Unit in the fine arts to the graduation requirements listed under ORC Section 3313.603 (C) in the substitute bills.
2) Please add the following language to Section 3301.42 (M) page 4 line 86: "Consideration shall be given to students with unique gifts and/or talents, such as the fine arts." (NOTE- This section of the substitute bills requires the Partnership for Continued Learning by July 1, 2006 to recommend legislative changes by which state universities may waive the general requirements that a student complete the Ohio Core curriculum to be admitted as an undergraduate.)
Explain to lawmakers that the additional graduation requirement in the fine arts will not increase the total number of state graduation credits in the substitute bills, which is 20 credits, but will shift one of the "five elective units" in the substitute bills to a "required graduation credit". Four elective units will remain.
The second request supports students who are pursuing careers in the arts and choose to take courses in the arts rather than all of the Ohio Core requirements in high school. It would allow the Partnership for Continued Learning to consider the unique gifts and talents of students in the criteria that the Partnership is required to develop for universities to use to waive the Ohio Core requirements for students entering most public universities as undergraduates.
Hearings on SB 311 (Gardner) and HB 565 (Setzer) are scheduled for November 28, 2006 and possibly November 29, 2006 in the Senate Education Committee, (Senator Padgett chair), and are expected to be scheduled in the House Education Committee (Representative Setzer chair) on November 28, 2006. The Ohio Core is expected to be approved before the 126th session ends on December 31, 2006.
Lawmakers will be home for the Thanksgiving holiday this week, which provides you with the opportunity to personally discuss with your lawmakers the important role of the fine arts in a curriculum that truly prepares students for work in the global economy. Please make personal contact and send an email to your Governor, Senator and House of Representative member.
Thank you for your continued support.
This information is provided for your interest. Does not necessarily reflect the views of Gallery202, Partners in Art, Inc. or it's governing board.
Take Action!
Contact the Governor and your Senator and House Member
ACTION ALERT - GRADUATION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ARTS
November 20, 2006
BACKGROUND
Substitute SB 311 (Gardner) and Substitute HB 565 (Setzer) regarding the Ohio Core graduation requirements were introduced in the Ohio Senate Education Committee (chaired by Senator Padgett) and the Ohio House Education Committee (chaired by Representative Setzer) on November 14, 2006. Several changes were made in the bills but a separate graduation requirement in the fine arts was not included. The two unit foreign language requirement in the bills as introduced was removed as a graduation requirement.
The substitute bills now require students who complete the Ohio Core to earn five credits consisting of one or any combination of foreign language, the fine arts, business, technology, and career-technical education. This provision increases the elective choices for students from four choices in current law (foreign languages, fine arts, and business/technology) to five by adding career-technology units as electives.
Please contact Governor Taft and your representatives in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate BEFORE NOVEMBER 28, 2006 with the following requests regarding the "Ohio Core" graduation requirements:
REQUEST TO LAWMAKERS
1) Please amend Sub. SB 311 (Gardner) and Sub. HB 565 (Setzer) to add a one credit Carnegie Unit in the fine arts to the graduation requirements listed under ORC Section 3313.603 (C) in the substitute bills.
2) Please add the following language to Section 3301.42 (M) page 4 line 86: "Consideration shall be given to students with unique gifts and/or talents, such as the fine arts." (NOTE- This section of the substitute bills requires the Partnership for Continued Learning by July 1, 2006 to recommend legislative changes by which state universities may waive the general requirements that a student complete the Ohio Core curriculum to be admitted as an undergraduate.)
Explain to lawmakers that the additional graduation requirement in the fine arts will not increase the total number of state graduation credits in the substitute bills, which is 20 credits, but will shift one of the "five elective units" in the substitute bills to a "required graduation credit". Four elective units will remain.
The second request supports students who are pursuing careers in the arts and choose to take courses in the arts rather than all of the Ohio Core requirements in high school. It would allow the Partnership for Continued Learning to consider the unique gifts and talents of students in the criteria that the Partnership is required to develop for universities to use to waive the Ohio Core requirements for students entering most public universities as undergraduates.
Hearings on SB 311 (Gardner) and HB 565 (Setzer) are scheduled for November 28, 2006 and possibly November 29, 2006 in the Senate Education Committee, (Senator Padgett chair), and are expected to be scheduled in the House Education Committee (Representative Setzer chair) on November 28, 2006. The Ohio Core is expected to be approved before the 126th session ends on December 31, 2006.
Lawmakers will be home for the Thanksgiving holiday this week, which provides you with the opportunity to personally discuss with your lawmakers the important role of the fine arts in a curriculum that truly prepares students for work in the global economy. Please make personal contact and send an email to your Governor, Senator and House of Representative member.
Thank you for your continued support.
This information is provided for your interest. Does not necessarily reflect the views of Gallery202, Partners in Art, Inc. or it's governing board.
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