I applaud the census!
But I gasped when I read the following:
While recognizing the squeeze on local school districts, Ms. Davy, the state's acting education commissioner, said additional funds are not necessarily the answer. To that end, she said she was hoping the art survey would shine a light on ways to offer innovative arts programming.
"We have to look at the results and see how we might better invest the resources we are investing to address the arts," Ms. Davy said, noting that some of the required core art content could be incorporated into other subjects, like math.

PLEASE tell me this survey will be used to promote a quality art program art for EVERY child, K-12; ALL the arts, and that Art will not be INCORPORATED into other subjects.

The arts have been teaching math skills for a very long time. Why not accept the fact that all subject areas overlap and many students may have the ability to better understand and demonstrate math skills through their art performance, rather than in the math class. I wish Ms. Davy would be open to the fact that there are students who develop the critical visual literacy skills,and math skills, along with science knowledge through their involvement in the learning of the content and performance of the arts, and at the same time are learning to read the symbol system which represents the literacy of the 21st century. Just look around you....literacy is VISUAL and is developed in the art room.