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In September 2002, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted Arts for All: Los Angeles County Blueprint for Arts Education, a strategic plan to restore arts education - in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts - to the 1.6 million students in Los Angeles County's 81 school districts.

Arts for All provides a series of policy changes and educational initiatives to create systemic change and institutionalize sequential, K-12 arts education in Los Angeles County school districts, based on the Visual and Performing Arts Standards for California Public Schools. The Blueprint proposes that systemic change can only occur through the commitment and involvement of every stakeholder group, and identifies the steps each stakeholder can take in its Call to Action Chart.

The initiative is led by the Arts for All Executive Committee and is managed by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. More than 100 organizations, including the Los Angeles County Office of Education, work in partnership to meet the goals and strategies contained in the Blueprint.

The four areas that advance strategies to ensure high quality arts education are
1. Establish a Strong Foundation and Deepen School District Capacity to Implement Arts Education 
2. Improve Quality of Teaching and Learning
3. Create and Empower Advocates and Conduct Ongoing Research and Evaluation
4. Ensure Sustainable Funding Partnerships for Arts Education
 

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News

Arts for All recently released a monograph on school district leadership in Los Angeles County. In 2009-10, leaders – superintendents, assistant superintendents and arts coordinators – from five County school districts took part in Arts for All’s Leadership Fellows Program. Their experience is captured in Engaging Senior Leadership to Advance Arts in Schools.

The Arts for All School Arts Survey: Measuring Quality, Access and Equity in Arts Education was developed to measure access to and quality of arts instruction at the school site level as well as to develop a system for collecting and reporting the data. Read our summary findings.