Report Title:

Education, Graduation, Fine Arts Requirement

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

31

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION POLICY TO INCORPORATE A FINE ARTS REQUIREMENT INTO THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION.

 

 

WHEREAS, an education in the arts is an education in understanding human condition, and a time-honored way of learning, knowing, and expressing; and

WHEREAS, an arts education helps students learn to adapt to and respect different ways of thinking, working, and expression; and

WHEREAS, learning artistic modes of problem solving, brings an array of expressive, analytical, and developmental tools to every human situation, in addition and complementary to the linear and sequential logic taught in traditional classes; and

WHEREAS, arts education benefits the student because it cultivates the whole child, developing intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity; and

WHEREAS, some colleges, such as those in the Arizona State University and the California State university systems, have found an arts education to be so beneficial that they require a year of arts education as a prerequisite for admission; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the Senate concurring, that the Board of Education is requested to adopt a policy to require one credit of fine arts education as a graduation requirement; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Superintendent and the Chair of the Board of Education.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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