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The Oklahoma Arts Education Dashboard is a first step. The next step is using the data to drive decisions. Viewpoint: Oklahoma must invest in arts education if it wants to improve academic outcomes
An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. They often operate at arms-length from the government to prevent political interference in their decisions.
Mid-America Arts Alliance, which has invested over five decades nearly $3.8 million in funding and services in Oklahoma, assisted more than 20,000 Oklahoma artists and made possible programming ...
More than 15 schools designed or built by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and its predecessors, including the Oklahoma State Dept. of Instruction, have been designated as historic sites. Many have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [14]
At this festival, Price met the director of the Oklahoma Arts Council (then called the Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council), and he asked her to work for them full-time. In 1974, Price joined the Oklahoma Arts Council as the public information director and State Capitol liaison. Price began contracting artists to bring more artwork to the Capitol.
The Office of Accountability was created in 1990 to oversee school performance and the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation was created in 1995 to establish standards for teacher candidates. In 2012, Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin signed SB 1797 into law, consolidating the two agencies into the single Office of Educational Quality and ...
The curriculum integrates the arts, and students are required to take 6 arts electives to graduate. [5] Harding Fine Arts Academy was founded in 2005 by attorney John L. Belt. HFAA owns the historic Harding High School building dating to 1924 after their bid to purchase it was approved by the Oklahoma City Public School Board.
J.B Perky was the first director. In 1966, Oklahoma technology center school districts were formed, and in 1967, Tri County Tech became the state's first area vocational-technical school. On July 1, 1968, the Oklahoma State Board of Vocational and Technical Education was established as a separate entity from the State Department of Education.