2026 Hawaiʻi State Legislature measures include HB 2437, Relating to Arts Education. SFCA Arts Education Specialist Danica Rosengren gives us a one-minute explanation of the measure and how it would benefit public schools and the arts education program Artists in the Schools.
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Danica Rosengren, SFCA Arts Education: “There’s another bill that’s being heard right now, that is to expand the base funding for Artists in the Schools. We have the base amount of the funds that we received last year for Artists in the Schools. But that amount didn’t actually cover all of the schools that applied. So we are requesting to expand the Artist in the Schools budget, and so by expanding that amount, we’ll be able to hopefully fund more schools this year. The goal is always to, and it has been, slowly increasing the number of schools that have applied for Artists in the Schools every year. So we have about 300 schools that can apply. So that’s public and public charter schools. K through 12, and then we also open it up to public preschools. So right now there’s roughly 300. So we’re in about a third of the schools. Last year we got just under half applying. So there’s so many more schools that could apply and potentially receive the grant.”