California already mandates arts teaching in public schools, but lack of funding has effectively nullified the requirement in four out of every five of them. No more. The election day passage — by almost 2 to 1 — of Proposition 28, California’s art and music K-12 education funding initiative, shifts about $1 billion from the state’s general fund into annual public-school arts instruction. (That’s less than one-half of 1% of the state’s total general fund budget.) The hurdle now: The state’s K-12 programs must find 15,000 certified instructors in dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts. That’s the big number educators think will be needed. Yes,15,000 accredited arts teachers.
California already mandates arts teaching in public schools, but lack of funding has effectively nullified the requirement in four out of every five of them. No more. The election day passage — by almost 2 to 1 — of Proposition 28, California’s art and music K-12 education funding initiative, shifts about $1 billion from the state’s general fund into annual public-school arts instruction. (That’s less than one-half of 1% of the state’s total general fund budget.) The hurdle now: The state’s K-12 programs must find 15,000 certified instructors in dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts. That’s the big number educators think will be needed. Yes,15,000 accredited arts teachers.
California already mandates arts teaching in public schools, but lack of funding has effectively nullified the requirement in four out of every five of them. No more. The election day passage — by almost 2 to 1 — of Proposition 28, California’s art and music K-12 education funding initiative, shifts about $1 billion from the state’s general fund into annual public-school arts instruction. (That’s less than one-half of 1% of the state’s total general fund budget.) The hurdle now: The state’s K-12 programs must find 15,000 certified instructors in dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts. That’s the big number educators think will be needed. Yes,15,000 accredited arts teachers.
California already mandates arts teaching in public schools, but lack of funding has effectively nullified the requirement in four out of every five of them. No more. The election day passage — by almost 2 to 1 — of Proposition 28, California’s art and music K-12 education funding initiative, shifts about $1 billion from the state’s general fund into annual public-school arts instruction. (That’s less than one-half of 1% of the state’s total general fund budget.) The hurdle now: The state’s K-12 programs must find 15,000 certified instructors in dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts. That’s the big number educators think will be needed. Yes,15,000 accredited arts teachers.
