Creativity Challenge:
The State of Arts Education in California
SRI Education’s latest study, “Creativity Challenge: The State of Arts Education in California,” commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a follow-up to the 2007 “An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California.” The report reveals that a majority of California schools continue to fail to meet the state’s arts education mandate of offering all California students dance, music, theater, and visual arts instruction.
State law requires all students receive sequential, standards-based visual and performing arts education, but only 11 percent of schools are meeting that requirement.
Insufficient funding and a lack of training for teachers remain the biggest barriers to providing excellent arts education throughout the state.
14% of schools with mostly low income students offered all 4 four disciplines, compared to 32% of schools with majority affluent students.
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