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9/23/2022 Arts

Coordinators Convening

CA Arts Ed Framework Resources
Creativity Challenge Report
Arts & Music Block Grant Info

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https://www.calartsedframework.org/for-educators

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SRI Education's recent study, "Creativity Challenge: The State of Arts Education in California," commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a follow-up to the 2007 report "An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California," reveals that a majority of California schools continue to fail to meet the state's arts education mandate of offering all California students dance, music, theater, and visual arts instruction.

Learn more at CreateCA.org/CreativityChallenge

For more information, contact us at info@createca.org.

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Inadequate funding remained the most significant barrier to increasing access to arts education

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Schools serving more affluent communities were ten times as likely to rely on parent group funds to support arts education

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Example from the Toolkit

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Do you know about the arts education crisis in CA? New data shows that 9 in 10 CA schools continue to fall short of complying with the CA education code, which requires all students have access to visual, dance, theatre and music. Join @Create_CA in the fight by signing up for their newsletter. Link in bio

(https://createca.org/join-the-movement/)

#CreativityChallenge

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Arts & Music Block Grant Information

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Ch.52 (Sections 23 and 36 of AB185) $3,560,885,000 is appropriated from the General Fund (GF) to the State Department of Education (CDE).

to establish the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant for allocation to county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and the state special schools, in accordance with a formula based on a per-pupil basis, as provided.

The bill would authorize funds to be used to obtain standards-aligned professional development, acquiring instructional materials in specified subject areas, including VAPA, and for other uses such as for operational costs, as specified.

AB181 Education Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill - Arts, Music, and Instructional Discretionary Block Grant

AB 185 Education Omnibus Budget

Trailer Bill

(On Governor’s Desk)

Changes the funding formula contained in AB 181 from per pupil to ADA - average daily attendance from last reporting period of Feb. 2022

https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/AB185/

chapter 52 https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB181/2021

(23) Existing law requires each pupil completing grade 12 to satisfy certain requirements as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation from high school. These requirements include the completion of designated coursework in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The coursework requirements include, among others, the completion of one course in visual or performing arts, foreign language, or, commencing with the 2012–13 school year, career technical education. Existing law eliminates the authorization for career technical education to count toward that graduation requirement on July 1, 2022, or upon the occurrence of a specified event relating to career technical education requirements of the University of California and the California State University, whichever occurs earlier, as specified.

This bill would extend the inoperative date of that graduation requirement to July 1, 2027, or upon the occurrence of a specified event relating to career technical education requirements of the University of California and the California State University, whichever occurs earlier, as specified. If a pupil completed a career technical education course that met that graduation requirement between July 1, 2022, and the effective date of this bill, the bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the course to be deemed to have fulfilled that requirement. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agency officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(36) Existing law appropriates $3,560,885,000 from the General Fund to the department to establish the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant, for allocation by the Superintendent to county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and the state special schools, in accordance with a formula based on a per-pupil basis, as provided.

This bill would, among other things, instead require the Superintendent to apportion those funds proportionally on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and would provide that the average daily attendance for the state special schools for these purposes shall be deemed to be 97% of enrollment, as specified.

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AB 181 Update

• $3.6 billion for the establishment of a discretionary block grant

• Anticipated date of allocation of funds:

50% of the funds in December 2022
50% in May 2023

Check out the CDE

Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division website

There will be upcoming CDE webinars for guidance

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Funding

80% in class instruction by credentialed teachers (within 80% certificated, classified, and instructional aides)
19% to additional materials and professional learning
1% administrative

Title 1 schools

2 to 1 additional funding

Protects existing Prop 98 funding

The proposed new funding for arts and music education would be IN ADDITION to existing Prop 98 funding, which will be equivalent to 1% of Prop 98 (from the General Fund).

PROP 28 - on the Nov 2022 General Election

Accountability

includes strong accountability and transparency measures, including requiring school districts to submit annual, public reports to verify the funds are spent as intended.
funds to supplement and not supplant existing funding

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NEXT STEPS

Align your asks to your district LCAP or strategic plan

Speak to your leadership regarding the Arts and Music Discretionary Block Grant.

Identify and suggest how you can use this for professional development and instructional materials.

Seek support from the Arts Ed Collective and the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

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Thank you

Contact

Jeannine Flores

flores_jeannine@lacoe.edu