ABOUT THE BLOG: PASS / FAIL"
Arts group recruiting parents to push LA Unified to produce tardy arts education budget
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Shana Habel, Los Angeles Unified's Dance Demonstration Teacher, leads a class of teachers at Cortines high school during a training in summer 2013.
Frustrated at the Los Angeles Unified School District's seven month delay in producing a budget for its much ballyhooed arts plan, the advocacy group Arts for LA, is encouraging a parent letter-writing campaign to school board members, demanding the budget be released.
"Access to a complete education that includes the arts is an equity issue, especially in LAUSD, where years of budget cuts have created deep rifts of inequity for our most vulnerable students," the letter states.
It goes on to call for school board members' help: "Please keep equity and access to a complete education your priority by calling immediately for a budget for arts education."
The website gives parents the option to change the letter or write a new one themselves. About 225 letters have been sent since the launch Wednesday.
"How many letters does it take to get a budget?" said Arts for