Congressmember Karen Bass (CA-33, Hollywood) is hosting a forum on education reform on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011.  Rep. Bass will be joined by special guest Russlyn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S.

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s new superintendent was introduced to the Santa Monica-Malibu Arts Education Advocacy Team and the District Advisory Council (DAC) Wednesday night at the school district's office. 

The Arts Education Partnership has compiled a list of resources for National Arts Education Week, September 12-16th.  Access a list of Arts Education Week initiatives, partner organizations and a comprehensive state arts education policy database

On October 8th, 2011, the Arts Council for Long Beach is hosting a summit on arts education.  The event will bring together parents, students, educators, and community members for a day-long conference in order to build support for and understanding of the benefits of arts learning for young people.

Arts for All, Los Angeles County’s dynamic, countywide collaboration to restore standards-based arts education into the public school core curriculum, received the Arts Education Award at the

Arts for All has announced the application and workshops for arts education professional development providers who wish to be included in their online directory.  The deadline for directory application is July 27, 2011.

The "Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act" would end 43 federal education programs, including Arts in Education.  The House of Representatives may vote on this legislation before the August Congressional Recess.  Click here to tell

United Teachers Los Angeles has reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with Los Angeles Unified School District that would restore at least 134 elementary arts teachers in 2011/2012.

Bennett Kayser has officially won the runoff election for LAUSD School Board 5th District seat after an extremely close election.  The Los Angeles Times reports that Kayser won by only 600 votes, receiving 10,700 total votes in an election with less than 10% voter turnout. 

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission and its partners have announced the launch of the new website for Arts for All, the dynamic, county-wide collaboration working to create vibrant classrooms, schools, communities and economies through the restoration of all arts disciplines into the core curriculum for each of our 1.6