Word: nea
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...Little Rock Nine and the Chicago Seven. By fate or design or bad luck, they came to embody their tumultuous times, as we social commentators like to say: the McCarthy era, the end of enforced racial segregation, the street riots of the 1960s. But have you heard of the NEA Four? A generation from now, historians may see that hapless quartet as embodying the less than tumultuous times of the 1990s. For this is the era of tiny commotions...
...NEA Four are "performance artists" to whom, several years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded government grants. The most famous of the performers, Karen Finley, thrilled audiences by coating herself in chocolate and doing highly inventive autoerotic exercises with sweet potatoes. Some members of Congress, worried perhaps about the inevitable outcry from the tuber-rights community, deemed this an unworthy expenditure of tax dollars. The grants were rescinded--and a cause was born. The martyrs came ready-made, as did the name with the capitalized numeral Four, lending their cause a portentous...
WASHINGTON: National Endowment for the Arts advocates saw their agency take a step closer to extinction today after the House slashed the $10 million remaining in the NEA budget and voted overwhelmingly to block the states from inheriting the agency's grant-making powers. Left without a penny for even a kindergarten fingerpainting show, defenders of the grant-making agency are looking to the Senate and President Clinton to help keep their agency alive. Republican senator Slade Gorton, chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, has indicated a willingness to fund the agency with at least $99.5 million next year. Republican...
...last to teacher peer reviews. In place for more than 10 years in some Ohio cities not represented by America's largest teacher's union, peer reviews allow teachers in good standing to work with all new teachers and with tenured teachers not making the grade, recommending dismissals. The NEA has long opposed the reviews for billing teachers as managers, but faced with several state legislatures itching to throw out tenure laws and fire lousy teachers at will, the union is now ready to offer up the reviews as a possible compromise. A vote is expected this week...
...NEA National Endowment of the Arts...