LAUSD schools faces challenge of making arts part of the core curriculum
Students dance in the after-school Greenway Arts Alliance program, a magnet program within Fairfax high school. Credit: Mae Ryan/KPCCArts advocates and educators are excited that the Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously in October to make arts a "core subject."
But making that desire a reality is complicated. Educators face a host of questions: What should be included in the arts curriculum? What should be classified as “arts?” How can the arts play a greater role in public education in a time of lean budgets, when political priorities are on improving test scores in areas such as math and English? Even determining the current amount of arts education is tricky.
The renewed focus on arts comes after what arts educators call years of curriculum narrowing following the
