By Daily Press staff
The local school district will adopt an arts education policy, which will be funded by entertainment mogul Sony Pictures and the National Endowment for the Arts.
“ARTS FOR ALL,” Los Angeles County’s program for Arts Education, calls for five of the 82 school districts in Los Angeles to adopt an arts education policy, plan and budget each year. The goal is to lay the foundation of a meaningful arts education program. The first five districts to receive technical assistance are: Culver City Unified (Dr. Laura McGaughey, Superintendent), Norwalk-La Mirada Unified (Dr. Ginger Shattuck, Superintendent), Pasadena Unified (Dr. Percy Clark, Jr., Superintendent), Rosemead School District (Dr. Amy Enomoto-Perez, Superintendent), and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified (Dr. John Deasy, Superintendent). The districts, one in each county supervisorial district, represent varying sizes and levels of readiness.
Grants will support the work in these districts during the 2003-2004 school year. A team of consultants has been brought in to support the work of the district’s arts team in assessing the status of arts education in the district.
The program outlines a massive effort to realize the vision of arts education for every Los Angeles County public school student, K-12.
ARTS FOR ALL can be downloaded at www.lacountyarts.org. Copies also may be obtained from the Arts Commission, 374 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 West Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 974-1343.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 22, 2003. Read the original PDF.