An information release document in regards to six metroplex elementary schools plus thirty other schools nationwide were selected to participate as Arts Partner Schools in a $15 million experiment to reform education. The six schools will work with art educators at the University of North Texas, announced this month by the Annenberg Foundation, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the National Arts Education Consortium.

An article titled "Chinese officials to visit UNT art seminar" about visiting delegations from the People's Republic of China to the University of North Texas June 23-24 to learn about the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program to improve public school learning on the arts. They are going to be touring the Sid Richardson Collection, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Amon Center Carter Museum with R. William McCarter, NTIEVA Co-director and Regent Professor of art at UNT.