Efforts are underway to restore the arts in California schools

Efforts are underway to restore the arts in California schools

As it turns out, does not want companies to hire labor in the morning, the candidates who are really good at filling in bubbles of standardized tests.

Creativity is the key to more than 1,500 executives said the 2010 study.

Still, California and many countries in a long time ago, the creative art of luxury, one that few schools can afford.

And then, with the support of business, state officials have formed the Create CA, a statewide initiative that they hope to restore the art schools, such as brushes and even pirouettes again, is as important as the No. 2 pencils.

The idea is to bring together those who have worked independently of art education. Participants who wish to adopt legislation to increase funding and public awareness.

the people behind the effort – including artists, teachers and leaders -. I think that California is now sufficient to support policy makers and business support for the right idea and the political will to succeed where similar efforts have floundered

Gov. Jerry Brown wants it. State Superintendent of Public Management Tom Torlakson want. Business leaders and politicians want it. Nonprofit groups want to focus on art, and are lined up to help.

Parents have always wanted, but had to depend on a parent group like the PTA to pay for the arts programs at school age.

“Right now – and this is the ugly truth – a kind of art is going to those who can afford it,” said Kris Murray, CEO of Northern California, a young audience, which supports artists in schools. “The current system is not good enough.”

Prop 13 funds dried up

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Parents and politicians have worked to restore arts education since 1978, when voters approved Proposition 13 property tax cap, which dried up the art of public funds in California classrooms.

1997, the State Superintendent of Education Delaine EASTIN there is no art “quiet crisis.” He was inspired by what he hoped would be the Renaissance, and soon was a government task force on arts standards for grade level, art, art as college entrance requirements, and some funds to back it up.

In 2001, Governor Gray Davis, $ 10 million in its Arts in Education Program.

And threw it back to the state PTA arts campaign.

Despite these efforts, by 2007, the year before the Great Depression hit, he said, only 11 percent of the schools, where state law required the whole repertoire of art: music, visual arts, theater and dance

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Beyond the bubble test

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told state lawmakers in 2009 to $ 109 million of the money for the arts and music education should no longer be used for those purposes, and schools can spend the money they needed. Most had no need of art.

“If something is not considered critical, it has been cut,” says Craig Cheslog Advisor Torlakson. “The art is too many areas are one of those things.”

Although history does not give hope and the other behind Cheslog Create a CA, including the California Arts Council, I believe that this time things are different.

This effort includes public art include a scorecard used to evaluate schools, an idea already included 2 bills are waiting for the state legislature.

In other words, a school class of tests based on more than a bubble. Art would mean nothing.

‘thing that lives in the things we measure “Cheslog said.

In addition, reforms need to include more art class es for high school diploma, compulsory art education for new teachers, the tax increase to fund arts education and theater and dance teaching credentials (in addition to existing visual arts and music).

California Arts Council has begun a new advertising campaign to promote the arts-themed license plate to raise $ 40000000 each year, public art and art education. Some supporters also hope to put a tax measure in a statewide vote of art.

the San Francisco Bay Area News – SFGate