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HEAR Spokespersons Lisa Graham Keegan of the McCain presidential campaign and Jonathan Schnur of the Obama campaign discuss their candidate's positions on music and arts education as part of a complete education for all children. The panel was held in a Town Hall meeting with Dan Rather on Friday, October 24, 2008 at the 52nd Annual Fall Conference of the Council of the Great City Schools in Houston, TX. Support for music and arts education is also offered by Chicago Public Schools superintendent Arne Duncan and Eileen Cooper Reed, Board representative for the Cincinnati Public Schools. Download the video file in Quicktime format.
HEAR Wynton Marsalis discuss arts education policy on behalf of the Obama campaign. Download the audio file in MP3 format.
Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for U.S. President, was invited to participate in a conference call with the Coalition. The following statement was provided on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Lisa Graham Keegan, spokesperson for the campaign: "Senator McCain is a very strong supporter of including the arts as part of a complete education plan, and has advocated for the arts as a great way to increase overall achievement for students as has been demonstrated in so many of our schools here in AZ and across the country that use a strong arts emphasis as their organizing principles."
