Arts Education for All Act
Latest action · Mar 31, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 31, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Arts Education for All Act
This bill expands arts education and programming for children in early education, K-12 students, and juveniles and adults in the criminal justice system.
Specifically, the bill allows Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to be used for additional activities, including arts programming.
Additionally, the bill addresses arts programming in elementary and secondary schools by
- directing each state educational agency to include information on arts programming in its state plan, including how it will integrate arts education instruction into the curriculum and increase the number of arts teachers in schools;
- requiring state report cards to include information on arts courses;
- requiring local educational agency (LEA) plans to describe how the LEA will encourage the use of arts education to improve student achievement; and
- allowing certain funds to be used for professional development for arts teachers.
The bill directs the National Center for Education Research to carry out research on the use of arts and arts education in elementary and secondary schools, including in low-performing schools. Further, the National Center for Education Statistics must compile data on arts education.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress must include a specified arts assessment.
The bill requires a state's juvenile justice and delinquency plan to describe how the state will coordinate services and activities for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention with arts agencies and arts organizations. Additionally, grants for adult offender reentry demonstration projects may be used for facilitating arts education.
Cosponsors 43
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 31, 2025 to Jul 23, 2026, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-WA | Emily Randall | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-NM | Teresa Leger Fernandez | Original | Mar 31, 2025 |
| D-OR | Andrea Salinas | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Jun 3, 2025 | |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Jun 4, 2025 | |
| D-NC | Valerie P. Foushee | Jun 9, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Delia C. Ramirez | Jun 10, 2025 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Jun 10, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 31, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 31, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5463 | Arts Education for All Act | Cross-Congress related bill | Sep 14, 2023 |
| HR 5581 | Arts Education for All Act | Cross-Congress related bill | Oct 15, 2021 |
| S 5635 | Arts Education for All Act | Related bill | Sep 30, 2026 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
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- Mar 31, 2025Introduced in House
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