‘People Sometimes Think of Arts as the Frosting’

State Education Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today told a Westport symposium on arts education in Connecticut that the state is actively seeking to improve arts education in schools and is working directly with the 30 lowest performing school districts to bolster their arts programs. “We see a direct relationship with the arts and improvement,” she said, adding that “people sometimes think of arts as the frosting instead of an important ingredient of the cake.” She spoke in a discussion with Kristin McKinney (r), a member of the Westport Arts Advisory Committee, which sponsored the TEA (Thinkers, Educators, Artists) Talk in the Westport Town Hall auditorium. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo