Let us start with funding. Please keep art in the schools. It is very beneficial to students. It helps students express themselves. It helps them to direct their emotions onto paper rather than expressing themselves in violence.
Art is so much more than paint on canvas, words on paper.
It is a healthy outlet for passionate people, a political commentary in this time of complacency and a unified meens of expression. I hate that more of my tax money goes toward guns and intervention policy than to social change and artistic expression. Also, despite all the carefully-crafted rhetoric, I strongly suspect that Federal support for public education will fare little better. Charges have been made in times past because of projects and grants which deeply offended some of the largest segments of American culture. The voters of this nation will not support a public trust that offends the majority's sense of trust.