Submitted by Guest Blog on March 1, 2010 - 5:35pm.
A group of parents from Dahlia Heights Elementary School’s PTA recently created a new advocacy group to help keep arts education alive and well in Los Angeles public schools and in the LAUSD budget. Read on to find out how this group mobilized to meet with their board member and plans to continue advocating that arts education be preserved in next year's budget...
Submitted by Guest Blog on March 31, 2009 - 9:28am.
At an event this afternoon I was fortuitously seated next to County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and got to speak with him privately, one-on-one, for a few minutes. I asked him for his help with Santa Monica's concerns about the location of the planned Expo maintenance yard. While Zev didn't offer much hope that the yard would be anywhere outside of Santa Monica, he did state categorically that he does not, and will not, allow the use of Bergamot as a site. Period.
Submitted by Guest Blog on March 16, 2009 - 9:24pm.
Part of our ongoing guest blog series. Each month, Arts for LA features a blog post from a prominent member of the field to share their thoughts and insights on current trends, advocacy and new legislative opportunities to rally behind.
Just a few weeks ago, we saw an important victory in the US Congress, where arts advocates were able to secure an additional $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the federal stimulus package.
Now, California Arts Advocates has sponsored a bill that seeks to restore full funding for the California Arts Council (CAC). The Creative Industries Revitalization Act, or AB 700, would provide grants to nonprofit arts organizations by directing 20% of the sales tax collected on works of art and like items (things like paintings, sculpture, musical instruments, sheet music, etc.), to a special fund to be administered by the CAC.
Submitted by Guest Blog on February 27, 2009 - 12:24pm.
Los Angeles County is called the creative capital of the world for obvious reasons, and that title is finally taking root in a sustainable way. For the first time in a generation, a significant number of L.A. County’s school districts—there are an astonishing 81 of them serving 1.7 million students—are committing to arts education.
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