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	<description>We speak for the arts wherever there is need.</description>
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		<title>Answering Change &#8211; Arts Summit 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready? Do you have a rock solid argument for government’s role in arts funding restoration and growth? Are your schools supporting and expanding their arts education programs? Do you know how to quickly reach elected officials and do you know people of influence who will speak on behalf of the arts? Who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Arts &amp; Sciences Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a public school volunteer for more than 15 years. And as an instructional designer, I work with faculty focusing on early education. Arts integration has always been easier for me to conceptualize in early education than in upper grades. Music, visual arts, dance, and theatre are essential tools parents and early education teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STEM, STEAM and Standing Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of talk lately about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and STEAM (adding an A for the arts to the STEM acronym). STEM proponents believe that strengthening learning in science, technology, engineering and math will achieve an ultimate goal of keeping America competitive in the global economy, while arts proponents support adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts Education Commission Appointed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey to a comprehensive arts education policy for all children in North Carolina just got shorter. The North Carolina General Assembly passed H758 in 2011 calling for the appointment of an Arts Education Commission to review, prioritize, recommend, and implement findings of the Comprehensive Arts Education Plan. Because of Legislative Champions Representatives Linda Johnson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me for half a minute knows I get pretty addicted to political campaigns. So I have watched with great interest the goings on in Iowa. 8 votes. Romney took it by 8 votes. I have several extrapolations to make as we leave the middle of the country and move our attention to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan B</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We listened. Arts North Carolina began its Strategic Plan last fall and heard from our membership on how we could best serve. Arts NC was called to be strategic and to create strong relationships with the “inside” track of Legislative leaders. More attention needs to be paid to local advocacy issues and training. You will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Cultural Vision for Charlotte-Mecklenburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three times in the past 40 years, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community has engaged in a planning process to chart the course for our local art, science and history community.  The first cultural action plan in 1976 led to institutions and facilities the community now holds dear – Spirit Square, Discovery Place, the Afro-American Cultural Center (now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Season of Wishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wish for deep and peaceful rest for beleaguered arts administrators who wrote the book on &#8220;do more with less&#8221; years before the Tea Party thought of the idea. We wish for artists to be employed. We wish all children had equal access and opportunity to excel in life because the arts were at the core of their public education and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts North Carolina Named to Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network Names New Member of The State Alliance for Arts Education For the 2010-2011 School Year   ARTS North Carolina   WASHINGTON, D.C.—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced a new member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. ARTS North Carolina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresno Superintendent Gives $800,000 in Salary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this article.  The Fresno Superintendent gave 2.5 years worth of salary back to the system to support programs he believes are important including the arts.  This will inspire you. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44305388/ns/us_news-giving]]></description>
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