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1	1	IV
2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 356
5	5	Expressing support for the designation of April 13, 2025, through April
6	6	26, 2025, as ‘‘National Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	APRIL28, 2025
9	9	Ms. V
10	10	ELA´ZQUEZsubmitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
11	11	Committee on Education and Workforce
12	12	RESOLUTION
13	13	Expressing support for the designation of April 13, 2025,
14	14	through April 26, 2025, as ‘‘National Young Audiences
15	15	Arts for Learning Week’’.
16	16	Whereas arts education, comprising a rich array of disciplines
17	17	including dance, music, theater, media arts, literature,
18	18	design, and visual arts, is an essential element of a com-
19	19	plete and well-rounded education for all students;
20	20	Whereas arts education enables students to develop critical
21	21	thinking and problem-solving skills, imagination and cre-
22	22	ativity, discipline, alternative ways to communicate and
23	23	express feelings and ideas, and cross-cultural under-
24	24	standing, which supports academic success nationwide as
25	25	well as personal growth outside the classroom;
26	26	Whereas arts education provides a well-researched and proven
27	27	methodology to differentiate instruction to meet the
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31	31	needs of all students, especially for English language
32	32	learners and students with special needs;
33	33	Whereas the nonprofit arts sector is an economic engine and
34	34	plays a significant role in the economic health of commu-
35	35	nities large and small with direct expenditures of wages
36	36	and benefits as well as goods and services;
37	37	Whereas, to succeed in today’s economy, students must mas-
38	38	terfully use words, images, sounds, and movement to
39	39	communicate;
40	40	Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning impacts over
41	41	4,999,276 participants annually with valuable arts-in-
42	42	education programs;
43	43	Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning presents more
44	44	than 87,170 arts-in-education programs to students and
45	45	teachers;
46	46	Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning works with
47	47	55,335 school educators and teaching artists;
48	48	Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning produces pro-
49	49	grams in more than 4,170 schools and community cen-
50	50	ters annually;
51	51	Whereas Young Audiences Arts for Learning encompasses 30
52	52	affiliates across the country, and the entire network of
53	53	such affiliates is participating in the 2025 ‘‘National
54	54	Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’;
55	55	Whereas Young Audiences New York implemented over 200
56	56	programs serving 22 partnering schools and institutions
57	57	in all 5 boroughs of New York City, including 156 inte-
58	58	grated residency programs steeped in arts learning and
59	59	arts integration practices in such areas as music, dance,
60	60	visual and design arts, theater, media arts and tech-
61	61	nology in predominantly title I public school settings ex-
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65	65	ploring teaching and learning pedagogy addressing the
66	66	needs of all students;
67	67	Whereas Arts for Learning Western New York partnered
68	68	with schools and institutions impacting 17,122 student
69	69	learners in 9 counties of western New York State inte-
70	70	grating the arts into such area as STEM, Language
71	71	Arts, Social Studies, Character Education Environmental
72	72	Awareness, Health and Nutrition;
73	73	Whereas Arkansas Learning through the Arts delivered 151
74	74	arts-integrated programs to more than 6,722 students
75	75	across the State of Arkansas;
76	76	Whereas Arts for Arts & Learning Conservatory joined the
77	77	national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network last
78	78	year in 2024 impacting 3,800 students throughout
79	79	Southern California;
80	80	Whereas Arts Education Collaborative, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
81	81	vania, delivered professional learning programs through-
82	82	out western Pennsylvania;
83	83	Whereas Arts for Learning Connecticut worked with 124,129
84	84	students in the State of Connecticut last year in 2024;
85	85	Whereas Arts for Learning Indiana engaged 153 collabo-
86	86	rating partners to deliver arts-integrated programs to
87	87	nearly 12,823 students in the State?;
88	88	Whereas Arts for Learning Maryland partnered with nearly
89	89	522 schools and community organizations in all 24 Mary-
90	90	land school districts to provide arts learning programs to
91	91	215,269 participants from prekindergarten through grade
92	92	12;
93	93	Whereas Arts for Learning Miami provided more than 65
94	94	programs reaching youth from infancy through high
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98	98	school graduation, in collaboration with 77 partnering in-
99	99	stitutions;
100	100	Whereas Arts for Learning Santa Cruz County, AZ, provided
101	101	arts-based learning programs to 4,086 students through-
102	102	out Santa Cruz County;
103	103	Whereas Arts for Learning Virginia served 38,425 students
104	104	across the State of Virginia last year 2024;
105	105	Whereas Arts Partners, Wichita, Kansas, provided over 2,486
106	106	programs to 45,130 local students;
107	107	Whereas ArtsNOW Learning in Atlanta, Georgia, partnered
108	108	with 274 institutions throughout the Southeast United
109	109	States involving over 31,088 participants;
110	110	Whereas Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, in Cleveland,
111	111	Ohio, provided nearly 6,689 programs for more than
112	112	154,719 participants;
113	113	Whereas Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education worked
114	114	with 5,945 students in 60 Chicago Public Schools set-
115	115	tings;
116	116	Whereas Kansas City Young Audiences in Missouri, the larg-
117	117	est nonprofit arts education provider in the region, served
118	118	over 104,373 students;
119	119	Whereas Springboard to Learning, in St. Louis, Missouri, de-
120	120	livered 4,415 programs to students in schools and com-
121	121	munity venues;
122	122	Whereas Think 360 Arts for Learning, in Denver, Colorado,
123	123	worked with more than 20,103 students across the State;
124	124	Whereas Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsyl-
125	125	vania provided programming to students throughout the
126	126	region in collaboration with 600 schools and partnering
127	127	organizations;
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131	131	Whereas Young Audiences of Abilene reached approximately
132	132	9,687 students last year in 2024;
133	133	Whereas Young Audiences of Houston provided over 327 pro-
134	134	grams to more than 235,890 students;
135	135	Whereas Young Audiences of Louisiana served more than
136	136	33,017 learners including students, faculty and families
137	137	at the Young Audiences Charter Schools in Jefferson and
138	138	Orleans Parish;
139	139	Whereas Arts for Learning Massachusetts reached approxi-
140	140	mately 147,211 students in the State of Massachusetts;
141	141	Whereas Young Audiences of Northeast Texas brought qual-
142	142	ity arts in education experiences to nearly 64,814 learn-
143	143	ers in northeast Texas;
144	144	Whereas Young Audiences of Northern California impacted
145	145	over 44,417 students in the Bay Area this past year in
146	146	2024;
147	147	Whereas Arts for Learning Northwest partnered with 167 in-
148	148	stitutions to engage over 49,457 program participants
149	149	across the region;
150	150	Whereas Young Audiences of Southeast Texas partnered with
151	151	schools throughout the region to deliver programming
152	152	that integrates arts into all traditional areas of academic
153	153	study to students in prekindergarten through grade 12;
154	154	Whereas Young Audiences of Lubbock (Texas) joined the
155	155	Young Audiences Arts for Learning national network in
156	156	November 2022 and during its first year implemented 20
157	157	programs in 19 schools; and
158	158	Whereas April 13, 2025, through April 26, 2025, would be
159	159	an appropriate period to designate as ‘‘National Young
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163	163	Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’: Now, therefore, be
164	164	it
165	165	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
166	166	(1) supports the designation of ‘‘National 2
167	167	Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week’’; 3
168	168	(2) honors and recognizes the contributions 4
169	169	which Young Audiences Arts for Learning programs 5
170	170	have made in enriching the lives of students, teach-6
171	171	ers, volunteers, families, and communities, and pays 7
172	172	tribute to arts in education and its contribution to 8
173	173	society; and 9
174	174	(3) encourages the people of the United States 10
175	175	to observe ‘‘National Young Audiences Arts for 11
176	176	Learning Week’’ with appropriate ceremonies and 12
177	177	activities that promote awareness of the role that 13
178	178	arts in education plays in enriching the education of 14
179	179	young people and enriching United States society as 15
180	180	a whole. 16
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