I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5581 
To expand arts education, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 15, 2021 
Ms. BONAMICI (for herself, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Ms. NOR-
TON, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. CICILLINE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALO-
NEY of New York, Ms. ROSS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COOPER, 
Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. TITUS, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Ms. JAYAPAL, 
and Ms. JACKSON LEE) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To expand arts education, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arts Education for 
All Act’’. 
TITLE I—EARLY CHILDHOOD 
EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
SEC. 101. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 
The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act 
of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) is amended— 
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(1) in section 658G(b)(1), by striking subpara-
graph (A) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) offering training, coaching, or profes-
sional development opportunities for child care 
providers that relate to the use of evidence- 
based, developmentally appropriate and age-ap-
propriate strategies to promote the social, emo-
tional, physical, adaptive, communication, and 
cognitive development of children, including key 
programmatic strategies, and offering special-
ized training for child care providers caring for 
those 
populations 
prioritized 
in 
section 
658E(c)(2)(Q), and children with disabilities;’’; 
and 
(2) in section 658P, by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(16) KEY PROGRAMMATIC STRATEGIES.—The 
term ‘key programmatic strategies’ means strategies 
related to— 
‘‘(A) nutrition and physical activity; 
‘‘(B) recommended practices for age-ap-
propriate exposure to screen media; and 
‘‘(C) the integration and utilization of in-
structional methods to assist learning across 
disciplines, including methods that use the arts, 
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language, literacy, mathematics, science, and 
social studies.’’. 
TITLE II—AMENDMENTS TO THE 
ELEMENTARY 
AND 
SEC-
ONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 
1965 
SEC. 201. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 
this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 
section or other provision of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.). 
SEC. 202. STATE AND LOCAL PLANS. 
(a) Section 1111(g) (20 U.S.C. 6311(g)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) USE
OF
ARTS
EDUCATION
TO
IMPROVE 
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.—Each State’s plan shall 
describe how the State educational agency will— 
‘‘(A) support and encourage the offering of 
a variety of arts education experiences to stu-
dents as part of the State educational agency’s 
overall strategy to improve student achievement 
in the subjects described in section 8101(52); 
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