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Arts Education Performance Indicators Report (2008)

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January 01, 2008

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The 2008 Arts Education Performance Indicators (AEPI) report marks a milestone in arts education in Los Angeles County. Since the last AEPI report in 2005, significant progress has been made toward building infrastructure to support sequential K-12 arts education in the 81 school districts in the County. This is the first such improvement since 1978 when the passage of Proposition 13 reduced property taxes and districts lost local funding setting off a steady decline of arts education in California schools.

The data provided in this report gives a County-wide picture of the status of arts education infrastructure in 2008. It shows remarkable forward movement not only in Arts for All school districts but across the County, including Los Angeles Unified School District which has been implementing an arts education initiative that predates Arts for All by three years.

2008aepi2.pdf

Arts Education Performance Indicators Report (2005)

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January 01, 2005

Arts Education Brief: Trends Since 2005

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May 01, 2014

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Arts education across all 81 school districts in LA County has held steady since 2005-06.

Despite the recession and even as the total number of students enrolled in public schools has decline, this is what we learned when we analyzed data on arts courses, enrollment and teachers that was reported by school districts to the California Department of Education (CDE) and posted on DataQuest. Below is a one-page summary our findings. In addition, we’ve compiled the data into Excel tables to download and use. Compare your district to others in LA County. Use the data in writing grants. Tell the story of arts education in your own data visualizations!

This is the first in a series of arts education briefs planned from the LA County Arts Commission. Our next brief will ask whether there is a correlation between arts education offerings and factors like poverty levels or the share of the student body that is English language learners. We also plan to take a closer look at historical trends in arts education by discipline.

As we develop ideas for future arts education briefs, we’d like to hear from you. What would you like us to analyze? Do you have questions about arts education that you’d like us to explore? We invite you to submit your ideas to us.

We’re also interested in tracking how this information is applied so if you use these tables or data, please let us know.

A note on methods

“Arts instruction” was defined here as all courses coded as:

Art
Arts, Media and Entertainment
Dance
Drama/Theater
Fine and Performing Arts
Music

Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) classes in the arts were included. Arts-related courses coded under Physical Education or Career Technical Education were excluded. This data replaces an earlier analysis of CDE data where we used a slightly different definition of “arts education.” These tables and our analysis of them are only as accurate as the data submitted by each district to CDE.

If you have any questions, please contact our Research and Evaluation Associate, Matt Agustin.