Arts Education

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.

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"

LA County Educators, Arts Organizations and Advocates Work to Make the Arts Core in Public Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2015 PRESS CONTACTS Marta Martinez, (213) 273-8334mmartinez@arts.lacounty.gov