Los Angeles School Board Passes Resolution Prioritizing Arts Curriculum

Eric Robelen writes at the Education Week (10/11) "Curriculum Matters" blog that the Los Angeles Unified School Board voted this week to "elevate the arts to an essential 'core' subject and to gradually restore budget cuts for it. In addition, the unanimously approved resolution instructed the superintendent to develop a plan to integrate the arts across the curriculum as the 664,000-student system moves to implement the Common Core State Standards." Robelen notes that the board passed a resolution calling on "Superintendent John Deasy to match or exceed arts funding to the level in 2007-08, before a series of what the press release calls 'massive budget deficits that crippled district finances across-the-board.'"