Within Our Power: The Progress, Plight and Promise of Arts Education for Every Child is the most comprehensive report on arts education in every New Jersey public school. This site exists to broadly disseminate the census results and to provide comprehensive resources supporting arts education both in New Jersey and across the nation.

The Summary Report and School Index Scores are available now! Complete report and Survey Insturment will be available on Wednesday, September 19th.

 

Executive Summary: Within Our Power - Findings and Recomendations from the Report
Complete Report: Within Our Power - Detailed Findings from the Report
County, District, and School Reports - Database of Information from the Report

Survey Instrument - PDF Files of the Actual Survey used for the Report

Elementary School Survey
Elementary School Instructions
Secondary School Survey
Secondary School Survey Instructions

 

Home of the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership – the state-wide arts education advocacy organization

Comprehensive information center for educators, parents, policy makers and concerned citizens
Headlines: New Jersey first state to establish census findings on website.


The New Jersey Arts Education Census Project is a partnership between the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Department of Education, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, under the direction of Music for All.

The New Jersey Arts Education Census Project is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding has been generously provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, NAMM - International Music Products Association, The D'Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts, David Bryan of Bon Jovi, and Music for All