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The academies provide aspiring artists with community but encourage trendy, theory-laden art.
At elite academies, it can be as much as $12,000 per year.
It was the first majority-white city in the South to elect a black mayor (twice-failed Senate aspirant Harvey Gantt), and remains committed to school integration--even as whites in other cities have flocked to private "seg academies."
As the principles of humanitarianism spread and the era of mass schooling arrived, Mann and others replaced or supplemented the elite academies with taxpayer-supported "common schools," which admitted young students from all walks of life.
FFC is convened under the aegis of NRC, the operating arm of the National Academies.