Mark Clement // Republican // Alpine School Board District 4
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How have the arts, culture, and/or humanities impacted your life?
- My children have all been involved in band and orchestra and I feel it has helped them in their math and science classes.
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Utah's humanities and arts employ 123,000 Utahns, provide $4.4 billion in earnings, and $13.2 billion in sales. This is a larger economic impact than agriculture, mining, and real estate. Do you consider the arts and cultural sector an economic driver in Utah?
- Yes
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Fiscally responsible government investment in the arts and humanities (including humanities and arts education) means to me:
- Investing in arts projects that have tangible returns.
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Items of Business I support:
- Credit requirements for participation in the arts and humanities should be increased
- K-6 Students should have increased exposure to arts and humanities education
- 7-12 Students should have increased exposure to arts and humanities education
- I support the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program which puts one arts specialist in most elementary schools
- I support increasing funding for arts education with property tax
- I support increasing funding for humanities and social sciences education with property tax
- I support working to increase funding for arts and humanities education.
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How would you expand participation in the arts and humanities amongst all students?
- More after school programs
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Anything else we should know about you?
- No
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