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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 356
Expressing support for the designation of April 13, 2025, through April
26, 2025, as ‘‘National Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL28, 2025
Ms. V
ELA´ZQUEZsubmitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Workforce
RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the designation of April 13, 2025,
through April 26, 2025, as ‘‘National Young Audiences
Arts for Learning Week’’.
Whereas arts education, comprising a rich array of disciplines
including dance, music, theater, media arts, literature,
design, and visual arts, is an essential element of a com-
plete and well-rounded education for all students;
Whereas arts education enables students to develop critical
thinking and problem-solving skills, imagination and cre-
ativity, discipline, alternative ways to communicate and
express feelings and ideas, and cross-cultural under-
standing, which supports academic success nationwide as
well as personal growth outside the classroom;
Whereas arts education provides a well-researched and proven
methodology to differentiate instruction to meet the
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needs of all students, especially for English language
learners and students with special needs;
Whereas the nonprofit arts sector is an economic engine and
plays a significant role in the economic health of commu-
nities large and small with direct expenditures of wages
and benefits as well as goods and services;
Whereas, to succeed in today’s economy, students must mas-
terfully use words, images, sounds, and movement to
communicate;
Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning impacts over
4,999,276 participants annually with valuable arts-in-
education programs;
Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning presents more
than 87,170 arts-in-education programs to students and
teachers;
Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning works with
55,335 school educators and teaching artists;
Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning produces pro-
grams in more than 4,170 schools and community cen-
ters annually;
Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning encompasses 30
affiliates across the country, and the entire network of
such affiliates is participating in the 2025 ‘‘National
Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’;
Whereas Young Audiences New York implemented over 200
programs serving 22 partnering schools and institutions
in all 5 boroughs of New York City, including 156 inte-
grated residency programs steeped in arts learning and
arts integration practices in such areas as music, dance,
visual and design arts, theater, media arts and tech-
nology in predominantly title I public school settings ex-
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ploring teaching and learning pedagogy addressing the
needs of all students;
Whereas Arts for Learning Western New York partnered
with schools and institutions impacting 17,122 student
learners in 9 counties of western New York State inte-
grating the arts into such area as STEM, Language
Arts, Social Studies, Character Education Environmental
Awareness, Health and Nutrition;
Whereas Arkansas Learning through the Arts delivered 151
arts-integrated programs to more than 6,722 students
across the State of Arkansas;
Whereas Arts for Arts & Learning Conservatory joined the
national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network last
year in 2024 impacting 3,800 students throughout
Southern California;
Whereas Arts Education Collaborative, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, delivered professional learning programs through-
out western Pennsylvania;
Whereas Arts for Learning Connecticut worked with 124,129
students in the State of Connecticut last year in 2024;
Whereas Arts for Learning Indiana engaged 153 collabo-
rating partners to deliver arts-integrated programs to
nearly 12,823 students in the State?;
Whereas Arts for Learning Maryland partnered with nearly
522 schools and community organizations in all 24 Mary-
land school districts to provide arts learning programs to
215,269 participants from prekindergarten through grade
12;
Whereas Arts for Learning Miami provided more than 65
programs reaching youth from infancy through high
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school graduation, in collaboration with 77 partnering in-
stitutions;
Whereas Arts for Learning Santa Cruz County, AZ, provided
arts-based learning programs to 4,086 students through-
out Santa Cruz County;
Whereas Arts for Learning Virginia served 38,425 students
across the State of Virginia last year 2024;
Whereas Arts Partners, Wichita, Kansas, provided over 2,486
programs to 45,130 local students;
Whereas ArtsNOW Learning in Atlanta, Georgia, partnered
with 274 institutions throughout the Southeast United
States involving over 31,088 participants;
Whereas Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, in Cleveland,
Ohio, provided nearly 6,689 programs for more than
154,719 participants;
Whereas Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education worked
with 5,945 students in 60 Chicago Public Schools set-
tings;
Whereas Kansas City Young Audiences in Missouri, the larg-
est nonprofit arts education provider in the region, served
over 104,373 students;
Whereas Springboard to Learning, in St. Louis, Missouri, de-
livered 4,415 programs to students in schools and com-
munity venues;
Whereas Think 360 Arts for Learning, in Denver, Colorado,
worked with more than 20,103 students across the State;
Whereas Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsyl-
vania provided programming to students throughout the
region in collaboration with 600 schools and partnering
organizations;
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Whereas Young Audiences of Abilene reached approximately
9,687 students last year in 2024;
Whereas Young Audiences of Houston provided over 327 pro-
grams to more than 235,890 students;
Whereas Young Audiences of Louisiana served more than
33,017 learners including students, faculty and families
at the Young Audiences Charter Schools in Jefferson and
Orleans Parish;
Whereas Arts for Learning Massachusetts reached approxi-
mately 147,211 students in the State of Massachusetts;
Whereas Young Audiences of Northeast Texas brought qual-
ity arts in education experiences to nearly 64,814 learn-
ers in northeast Texas;
Whereas Young Audiences of Northern California impacted
over 44,417 students in the Bay Area this past year in
2024;
Whereas Arts for Learning Northwest partnered with 167 in-
stitutions to engage over 49,457 program participants
across the region;
Whereas Young Audiences of Southeast Texas partnered with
schools throughout the region to deliver programming
that integrates arts into all traditional areas of academic
study to students in prekindergarten through grade 12;
Whereas Young Audiences of Lubbock (Texas) joined the
Young Audiences Arts for Learning national network in
November 2022 and during its first year implemented 20
programs in 19 schools; and
Whereas April 13, 2025, through April 26, 2025, would be
an appropriate period to designate as ‘‘National Young
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Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘National 2
Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’; 3
(2) honors and recognizes the contributions 4
which Young Audiences Arts for Learning programs 5
have made in enriching the lives of students, teach-6
ers, volunteers, families, and communities, and pays 7
tribute to arts in education and its contribution to 8
society; and 9
(3) encourages the people of the United States 10
to observe ‘‘National Young Audiences Arts for 11
Learning Week’’ with appropriate ceremonies and 12
activities that promote awareness of the role that 13
arts in education plays in enriching the education of 14
young people and enriching United States society as 15
a whole. 16
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