The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has long advocated for the importance of the arts in public education. In 2002, the Supervisors unanimously adopted the Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education which established the LA County Arts Ed Collective as a part of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. The Arts Ed Collective was directed to work with the Office of Education to ensure that LA County’s 1.5 million public school students receive high-quality arts education. Sixteen years later, in a motion co-authored by Supervisors Hilda L.
The following three poems were written onsite during the Arts Now: LA County Arts Education Summit. They were written for and in response to the events, ideas and topics of the summit.
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By Cyrus Roberts
Resources and Presentation materials from the Arts Now: LA County Arts Education Summit
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission releases findings from a 18-month survey of arts education in K-12 public schools.
By Carla Javier/KPCC
California law requires schools to offer arts instruction from first to 12th grade. But, in practice, not all students are getting equitable access to arts education.
So the Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective is trying a new approach: forming an Arts Ed Innovation Lab, and working with stakeholders to create prototypes – small but scalable projects that creatively increase access to arts education for more, and ideally all, students.