HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 1998-225CITY OF PLYMOUTH
RESOLUTION NO. 98 - 225
ROBBINSDALE AREA SCHOOLS
WHEREAS, the Robbinsdale Area Schools and the City of Plymouth believes a
comprehensive arts program is essential for quality education because the arts are
fiindamental to learning, because the arts are necessary in understanding culture/heritage
and because the arts improve the quality and depth of other learning experiences; and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Arts Planning Program (CAPP) committee supports
Robbinsdale Area Schools' comprehensive arts program by communicating the importance
of the arts in schools, promoting arts education, initiating arts events and creating
opportunities for arts involvement by the total community; and
WHEREAS, District 281 was chosen in 1983 as one of the first CAPP sites, and received
a major grant to implement discipline -based art education from the J. Paul Getty Center
for Education in the Arts, 1985-88; and
WHEREAS, our high school student yearbooks traditionally win First Class awards, the
student newspapers consistently win the coveted All-American award and the performing
groups consistently earn superior ratings at state -level contests; and
WHEREAS, the National School Boards Association featured our K-12 visual art
program as one of the four model programs in the country in a resource publication
distributed to education leaders nationwide; and
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education selected District 281 school
board as the 1989-1990 entry for the Kennedy Center/National School Boards Association
Award because of its significant contributions, advocacy and financial support for arts
programs in the school district; and
WHEREAS, the first musical produced in a Minnesota high school was in District 281,
and it is the only school district in the nation to receive the Children's Theater Foundation
Gold Medallion;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City of Plymouth joins the school board
of Robbinsdale Area Schools in support of the district arts programs and declares the
1998-1999 school year as a year to place "Accent on the Arts".
Adopted by the City Council on April 15, 1998.
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