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Great Strides Are Being Made in Arts Education in Los Angeles.

LAUSD and Los Angeles County have spearheaded two major efforts to restore meaningful sequential arts education in Los Angeles. LAUSD took the lead back in 1999 and is now in its eight year of a ten-year plan.

The other major effort is Arts for All, a public-private partnership between Los Angeles County and private funders to restore meaningful sequential arts education in the eighty, that right, "80" school districts in Los Angeles County. Now in its fifth year, Arts for All is currently in 29 school districts, ten of which have adopted arts policies and plans, while the others are beginning the process.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission also launched LA Arts Ed Resources for Communities and Schools. It's one stop shopping for teachers and administrators looking for quality arts educators and programs that adhere to California's Department of Education Visual and Performing Arts Standards (VAPA). Currently there are over 200 arts education programs available for booking during the school day. The directory is searchable by program type, discipline academic, grade level and even cultural origin.

LA Arts Ed also provides copies of arts policies, resources for strategic plans and discussion topics that can help expand a learning communities commitment to arts education.

In the blog...

From the Blog-o-sphere
Emerging Arts Leaders Train 120 Arts Advocates!
Submitted by Danielle Brazell on July 23, 2008 - 10:22am.
Emerging Arts
These four stellar emerging arts leaders, (pictured above L-R) Prisciilla Jaworski, Cybele Garcia Kohel, Matty Sterenchock and Anne Huyck,conducted advocacy workshops for 120, that’s right folks, one hundredand twenty Los Angeles County arts interns as part of the 2008 ArtsCongress (and we are not even counting the discussion leaders and extrastaff!).      » Continued

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CALIFORNIA STATE PTA
September 1, 2008
Legislation Information Alert from the Education Coalition:

Sacramento -- The Education Coalition announced opposition to the Republican Senate budget proposal that permanently cuts billions from our schools, and sets up yet another risky borrowing scheme that relies on temporary fixes and shortchanges our students by billions more in future years.

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Arts Ed Job Openings
Submitted by Danielle Brazell on July 25, 2008 - 11:57pm.
Post job announcements for art ed related positions (teaching artists, arts ed administrators etc.) 
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What's wrong with standards-based arts education?
Submitted by Danielle Brazell on February 24, 2008 - 4:05am.
I've heard a lot of talk about the problems with standards-based arts education. Can someone help paint the picture for me as to why we need to put standards with arts education? Can't it just be for the total and unabashed enjoyment of the student?
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This community portal is made possible through a partnership with Arts for All* and the California Community Foundation. Arts for LA is a proud affiliate of Americans for the Arts.

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*2007-08 Pooled Fund members:
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Boeing, The Angell Foundation, The Getty Foundation, The Jewish Community Foundation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Target Corporation, Warner Bros. Entertainment. Targeted Funding Partners: The Dana Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Herb Alpert Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts. Previous members: Creative Artists Agency, Entertainment Industry Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation.