Zócalo Public SquareAre the Arts Dead in California’s Public Schools? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Are the Arts Dead in California’s Public Schools? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/05/31/are-the-arts-dead-in-californias-public-schools/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/05/31/are-the-arts-dead-in-californias-public-schools/ideas/up-for-discussion/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 07:01:16 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=48238 We’d love for our schools to teach Billy to play the tuba or draw an elephant, but the money isn’t there for it. Few California public schools spend more than a couple of percentage points of their budget on education in the arts, and funding has been scarce for decades now. So what is to be done? In advance of “An Evening With Debbie Allen,” a Zócalo event, we asked several educators and professionals if the arts in California’s public schools were dead and, if so, what, besides money, might revive them. Here is what they said.

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