| Table 87. | Among public secondary schools that reported instruction in the arts during regular school hours, percentage distribution and standard error for reporting the extent to which the support for arts education was adequate: School year 2009–10 |
| Type of support | Very adequate | Somewhat adequate | Somewhat inadequate | Very inadequate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| Funding | 25 | (1.4) | 50 | (1.8) | 16 | (1.2) | 9 | (1.0) |
| Facilities (e.g., classroom, storage, display) | 42 | (1.5) | 41 | (1.8) | 12 | (1.1) | 4 | (0.8) |
| Materials, equipment, tools, and instruments | 35 | (1.6) | 49 | (1.6) | 13 | (1.1) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Instructional time for the arts | 51 | (1.4) | 39 | (1.6) | 7 | (0.9) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Number of specialists | 40 | (1.6) | 40 | (1.7) | 13 | (1.2) | 7 | (0.7) |
| Arts professional development for teachers/specialists | 19 | (1.4) | 45 | (1.7) | 26 | (1.3) | 10 | (1.0) |
| Student interest or demand | 47 | (1.5) | 45 | (1.8) | 7 | (0.8) | 1! | (0.4) |
| Parent or community support | 38 | (1.8) | 44 | (1.8) | 14 | (1.1) | 4 | (0.7) |
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Percents are based on the 97 percent of public secondary schools that reported instruction in the arts during regular school hours in the 2009–10 school year. Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Secondary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 2009,” FRSS 101, 2009–10. |
