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- Obama Administration Released Details of FY 2011 Budget
02-01-2010: The Obama administration today released details of their fiscal year 2011 Budget. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) saw a $6.4 million decrease from the enacted $167 million passed and signed last year. The $161 million figure matches the administration’s previous proposed funding level for FY 2010 which, in the end, was increased by Congress during their appropriations process. Today’s NEA release states, “This proposed budget maintains the NEA's areas of grant making—Access to Artistic Excellence, Learning in the Arts, and Partnerships—and it also includes $5 million in proposed "Our Town" funding, in recognition of the role that the arts can play in economic revitalization and in creating livable, sustainable communities.” NEH also was cut to $161 million. Other federally funded items such as IMLS, the Kennedy Center, the Holocaust Museum, and the National Gallery saw mostly level-funding with only the Smithsonian adding significant budget authority.
The consolidation of Arts in Education (AIE) into a new $265 million program named the “Effective Teaching and Learning for a Well-Rounded Education” program which includes six other non-arts related programs is still being analyzed. Details as to AIE’s configuration and funding levels have not been released, but the Department of Education's expectation is to fund those kinds of successful arts integration programs through a new competitive grant program that rewards innovation and best practices among these seven programs. You can read the statement of Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch here in response to these changes.
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