Portland's Real Mayor and Fake Mayor Support CAN's Arts Education Funding Initiative

Portland Mercury:

A few weeks ago, the Creative Advocacy Network released the details of their plan to restore arts education to public schools. Today, Portland's real mayor and Portland's fake mayor both announced their support for the plan, which could be placed on the November ballot as soon as Wednesday. Fake mayor:

Real mayor:Dear Portlander, We have a growing problem in our city: despite our national reputation as a creative community, arts and music education is rapidly disappearing from our schools. Currently, over 11,500 students in 26 schools have no access to certified instruction in art, music, dance or drama1 and only 18% of our elementary schools offer art instruction (compared to 83% nationally.) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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