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No Artist Left Behind
Thursday, 1 p.m. at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center's gallery meeting room
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June 23, 2005
[COMMUNITY MEETING] It was our esteemed President George W. Bush who first asked the seminal question on education—"Is our children learning?" The answer, at least in regards to children who didn't end up becoming president, is a qualified but fairly certain "yes." With Bush's No Child Left Behind "reforms"—rate every school in America on the basis of standardized test performance then cut off those schools who do poorly—no one's quite sure anymore. Now that schools everywhere are scrambling for resources and money, parents are beginning to ask whether their children's arts programs are going to get the ax. Hence this meeting, organized by the advocacy group Kauleo: Maui Partners for Arts Education. It's free and open to anyone concerned that in the rush to jack up test scores, schools will sacrifice creative and thoughtful endeavors like art and music. For more information, call 242-2787, ext. 234. [ANTHONY PIGNATARO]
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