Dear Art Colleagues!

I hope you enjoyed our Winter Newsletter as much as I did.  Thank you Sarah Horn for a great newsletter!  Most of you are aware that Kentucky Art Education Association has signed the paperwork to become an official affiliate of the National Art Education Association.  We will be receiving our memberships in July and have been guaranteed four months of FREE membership to NAEA. You will be able to renew in October for both KyAEA and NAEA together for a flat fee of $75.  This will coincide well with our state membership expirations in October!

Membership rates have not risen for either organization; they are now combined into one joint membership.  If you have further questions, please email me and I will try to further explain. 

Here are a few words about the KDE Program Review and Content Standards.  Look for the Program Review information soon on the KDE website.  KDE is gearing up for the Program Review Pilot Training.  This could be occurring as soon as February.  Content Standard revisions are due to be completed by the end of this calendar year also.

A few weeks ago Robert Duncan (KDE’s Arts and Humanities Consultant) surveyed Kentucky’s Art and Music teachers to determine their annual budgets and amount of out-of-pocket expenses that each teacher incurred annually. 

Here are the results:

Visual Art teachers, K-12:  30 responded

Annual School budget, not including fundraisers, etc.:  AVERAGE, $1,200       RANGE, $150-$2,800

Out of Pocket expenses:                                                AVERAGE, $   360       RANGE, $    0-$2,000

 Music Teachers, K-12:  89 responded

Annual School Budget, not including fundraisers, etc.  AVERAGE, $2,150       RANGE, $   0-$23,000

Out of Pocket expenses                                                 AVERAGE, $   525       RANGE, $   0-    3,500

I am hoping that you will join me in Frankfort at the Capitol Building on February 10^th for the Arts Advocacy Day rally and meetings.  We are wearing bright blue to be recognized and would like to have a strong contingent of Art educators present.  We will meet in the Capitol’s Rotunda at 9:30 am. See you there!

Judi Haynes, President

judihns@yahoo.com

Here is the Advocacy Day’s agenda: