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.
diversity
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.
Campus Kilpatrick tests efficacy of new "LA Model"