06/04/2026
We have to stop viewing education as career building versus skill building! This generation doesn’t get to pick their careers at age 18 (especially not in high school and some cases middle school!) because we don’t know what the careers are going to be. They need to build skills that apply to everything. This is why our founder did a TEDx talk titled “AI Can’t Replace This: Why Arts Education Matters” and started Parents for Arts Education and .
Fine arts has been teaching creativity, collaboration, communication, and grit long before anyone called them human skills. A degree is any of these programs ensures you have the skills a computer can never replace.
Join us in this fight we are looking to expand our board and regional ambassadors!!
The Department of Education has proposed a new “accountability” system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.
The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provide students with information about the costs and economic prospects of their intended degree programs while, as the name implies, holding those programs accountable for their graduates’ outcomes. The framework would apply across higher education, and programs whose graduates fail to meet its earnings benchmark in two out of three years could lose eligibility for federal student loans.
Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/higher-ed-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-arts-education-1234788169/
