DPI's budget necessarily goes above the present level in several areas, and the Arts Education Initiative, a partial response to the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommendations, is completely new. If it survives, the Arts Education Initiative will go to the Joint Finance Commit5tee. Those members need to know there is strong support for this one-time request for arts education in the DPI budget because of the hard work of the Commission on Arts Education and to respond to the recommendations they have made. Letters or phone calls should be made to the Joint Finance members and to your own senators and assembly persons. If it makes it out of Joint Finance it will go to the Senate and the House Education Committees.
Legislators respond best to requests from people in their own districts.
You could start now to inform your senator and representative about this budget request and see if they can talk to others about supporting it.