Education and the Arts
Improving Educational Opportunities and Access to the Arts for All Americans
Louise has long pursued a multi-pronged effort to ensure equal access to quality education for all. This has included introducing and co-sponsoring bills to save and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of teachers, securing funding for education initiatives in the District, fighting against cuts to school lunch programs, and promoting community efforts to keep schools safe. She is deeply concerned about inequities in our school system and has pushed to increase funding for school districts with high concentrations of poverty. Louise has been a leader on student loan reform, working hard to lower interest rates on student loans and increase funding for Pell Grants keep the costs of higher education in check and affordable for all
Louise is a Co-Chair of the 168-member Congressional Arts Caucus. As part of her responsibilities, Louise has helped secure funding for the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the museums and libraries of New York State while fighting against proposed cuts to National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Services.