Progress to Date
School districts
As of the 2011-12 school year, 48 of the County's 81 school districts and 14 ICEF charter schools in LAUSD have joined the Arts For All collaboration representing 560,465 students. To see all of the Arts for All school districts, please view the:
To lay a firm foundation for arts education, Arts for All districts work toward achieving five critical success factors: a school board-adopted arts education policy and plan, district-level Arts Coordinator, funding specifically allocated for arts education from the general budget, and a student to credentialed art teacher ratio of no more than 400 to 1.
To assess the progress of arts education in Los Angeles County, the Arts Commission periodically queries all County school districts about these factors and reports the results in the Arts Education Performance Indicators (AEPI) report. The AEPI of 2008, the latest available, reports that school districts’ responses from both 2005 and 2008 show an increase in arts education infrastructure, as reflected by the five critical success factors, across the County.
Quality of arts education
How to define and measure quality instruction has been the subject of much debate in educational circles and is especially important at a time when school districts are making difficult choices about where to invest limited and shrinking funds. In 2010, Arts for All introduced Quality, Equity and Access Indicators, defining for the first time what high-quality arts education looks like at the school site level in Los Angeles County. A data collection system for schools was devised to measure quality and equitable delivery of and student access to arts education at the school level.
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