Help Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy Students Thrive and Succeed!
"The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic...music, dance, painting, and theatre are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment." -William Bennett, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
To make arts an essential element of every child’s education at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, our nonprofit, Arts+ Scholars - Empowering Students through the Arts (Previously The Center For Excellence) is dedicated to the goal of providing music, visual arts, dance, media arts and theatre as core curriculum subjects in all grades. The findings from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey are compelling:
Low socioeconomic status (SES) students benefited significantly from attending schools characterized as arts-rich (i.e., possessing a rich and complete arts curriculum) compared to peers attending arts-poor schools with regard to college attendance, grades, employment, and level of terminal degree.
That is where we come in. Arts+ Scholars is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose sole mission is to support arts in this school. Please partner with us in the education of each child at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy knowing that you are investing in a group of great kids and the future citizens of our community and our country.