Art and Advocacy for Students Facing Adversity

  • Cleveland Municipal School District Founded: ext.

    Cleveland Municipal School District Founded in 1836 and covers 79 square miles.
  • Recruiting Campaign by the National Tube Co. in Lorain, Ohio

    Recruiting Campaign by the National Tube Co. in Lorain, Ohio
    The US Steel company hired a Philadelphia firm to relocate Puerto Ricans to Lorain, Ohio
  • Segregation in Cleveland Public Schools Dismantled: ext.

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that separating students in public schools on the basis of race unconstitutional.
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Established: ext.

    National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Established: ext.
    The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was established in Congress as an independent federal agency that funds and promotes the arts.
  • Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) Formulated in the Early 1980s

    DBAE, an educational program for the arts, was formulated by the J. Paul Getty Trust in the early 1980s to promote education across four arts disciplines: aesthetics, art criticism, art history and art production.
  • Introduction of Charter Schools in Ohio: ext.

    Ohio legislature allows "community schools", or charter schools, to open in eight urban districts.
  • ACCEL Schools Founded

    ACCEL Schools was founded as a K-12 public charter school management organization (CMO).
  • Hurricane Maria Occurs in Puerto Rico

    Hurricane Maria Occurs in Puerto Rico
    Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, accounting for 3,059 deaths.
  • COVID-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 Pandemic is said to officially begun on January 20, 2020, altering the globe.
  • U.S. Census Bureau Estimates Poverty Levels in Cleveland

    The 2021 U.S. Census Bureau 1-year estimate reveals that over 33,500 children were living in Poverty in Cleveland.
  • $8 Million Awarded to Assistance for Arts Education: ext.

  • Jonathan Kozol Publishes: An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America

    Jonathan Kozol Publishes: An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America