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LA City Council Closer to Official Support of AB580

Photo: Councilmember Paul Krekorian

The Los Angeles City Council moved one step closer to passing an official resolution in support of AB 580, the California Assembly bill that would fund the California Arts Council with $75 million dollars for the next fiscal year.

The resolution, written on April 17 and first mentioned by... Read more

Four LA County Schools Recognized for Exemplary Arts Ed Programs

CA distinguished schoolFour schools in Los Angeles County were among thirteen recognized by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson for "exemplary arts programs" serving middle and high school students.

Warren High (Downey USD), Renaissance... Read more

VIDEO: LA CIty Council Budget & Finance Committee Lauds Dept of Cultural Affairs

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LA Must Vote

This article originally appeared in UCLA IDEA's "Themes in the News"

Are Los Angeles schools unduly influenced by “outside interests”?  How about “inside interests”?  Or maybe, no interest at all?

According to Warren Fletcher, president of United Teachers of Los Angeles, “voters do not need outsiders deciding who is best to sit on the LAUSD Board of Education" (Los Angeles Times). Those... Read more

Learning from Experiments in Arts Innovation

The following blog post by Josephine Ramirez originally appeared on the James Irvine Foundation's blog and is reprinted here by permission.

Staying relevant amid a shifting landscape is an obstacle that’s very familiar in our field: arts organizations are challenged to meet the changing expectations of communities they serve. My predecessors at Irvine responded to that growing... Read more

Guest blog: Talia Gibas of Arts for All on Shared Delivery & Arts Education [excerpt]

This blog was originally published by Createquity and is excerpted with permission.  Read the entire post at Createquity.

Shared delivery does not reflect what I or, based on anecdotal evidence, the majority of people within my age bracket received in terms of arts education. My fifth grade generalist teacher was a woman named Mrs. Gonzalez. I saw her every day, and she... Read more

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