The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) are collaborating to conduct surveys on arts education in U.S. public schools during the 2009-10 school year. The surveys will be conducted through the NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), which was used to conduct previous national surveys on arts education in 1999-2000 and 1994-95. The FRSS reports on the status and trends of how arts education is delivered in public schools. NCES anticipates releasing initial data results by early and mid 2011. A larger, more comprehensive report will follow the initial releases and provide combined and detailed findings for all of the surveys, including comparisons between the 1999-2000 and 2009-10. These studies are essential to studying and improving access to the arts as a core academic subject. For more information visit http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/   .