In a follow-up interview with the Tribune, the mayor went on and on about his valiant efforts to battle the bureaucracy to give arts to the children because he loves the arts almost as much as he loves the children.
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Or as he put it, “Now we’re facing big budget challenges, but we’re not allowing the arts education to become a casualty. If anything we’re doubling down on it.”
If anyone deserves credit for saving art in the public schools, it’s the principals who scrambled to find a way to save the art teacher, often by cutting the librarian.
For instance, at Burley, where Katten’s son goes to school, the students have art and music every week. But that’s not because of anything the mayor’s done.
So, about once a week the children file into the art room for art?
“We have an art teacher,” says Jeanette Taylor, a member of Mollison’s LSC.
