Every year, North Carolina taxpayers pay about $27 million to
provide 1,100 or high school and college students with professional
training in the performing arts (primarily theater, film, music, and
production design). The students at the UNC School of the Arts get this largesse at a level given by no other state (with only New York even running close). Is this how taxpayers want
their money spent?
Max Borders, executive editor of Free To Choose, will raise that question on Thursday, December 3, at a luncheon at the Renaissance Hotel in Raleigh. Joining the discussion will be John Hood and J. Peder Zane, former Ideas columnist with the Raleigh News and Observer. You are invited!
Max is the author of the Pope Center’s paper (to be released on the 3rd) “The UNC School of the Arts: Should It Be Self-Supporting?”
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