Help arts teachers of at-risk students not to have to pick in the trash or spend personal money to support students.

Many art teachers dig in the trash for supplies to support students in poor schools. Title I -- designed to help poor students -turned their backs to art education. Arne Duncan (2009), and Monique Chism (2013), wrote letters to school administrators and state Title I facilitators requesting their support for art educ. Title I ignored their requests. It is felt in the classroom. A study by the NEA of more than 15,000 at-risk students (Arts and Achievement in At Risk Youth, 2012) validate the benefits of high quality arts experiences and the consequences of low art experiences. Arts teachers are positioned in the center of this struggle and disadvantaged students don’t reap the benefits of high quality arts experiences. Read the dissertation at UGA "Teach Me How to Urban" by L. Whittington.