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2024 Arts and Foreign Language
Mission Statement Through a unique partnership, IAC and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) provide grants to school districts and other eligible applicants for the purpose of supporting arts and foreign language education in schools, with an emphasis on ensuring that these areas become part of the school’s core curriculum.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Ensure that arts and foreign language become part of the school’s core curriculum.
    1. Provide up to four years of grant funding, with one year of planning and three years of implementation.
      1. Develop district-based plans for initiating, strengthening, or expanding instruction in the arts or foreign language.
      2. Introduce, strengthen, or expand instruction in the arts or foreign language and develop the means of perpetuating the funded program with local resources after the conclusion of the grant period.
    Source of Funds General Revenue Fund Statutory Authority Section 2-3.65 of the School Code
    Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2024 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2023 Actual Fiscal Year 2022 Actual
    Input Indicators
    Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 907.5 $ 907.5 $ 907.5 $ 825.0 $ 825.0
    Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 907.5 $ 907.5 $ 907.5 $ 825.0 $ 825.0
    Average monthly full-time equivalents 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
    Output Indicators
    Number of Arts Education Planning Grants awarded 25.0 22.0 1.0 0.0 7.0
    Number of Arts Education Implementation Grants awarded 15.0 15.0 15.0 13.0 6.0
    Outcome Indicators
    Number of school districts receiving grants 25.0 22.0 14.0 13.0 13.0
    Number of youth benefiting 3,000 2,888 7,150 6,500 10,000
    Percentage of Illinois House districts served 18.00% 15.00% 11.00% 10.00% 18.00%
    Percentage of Illinois Senate Districts served 30.00% 27.00% 18.00% 17.00% 17.00%

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