Title
Annual Report of the Los Angeles Unified School District Proposition 28: The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act
Division of Instruction
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Brief Description:
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(Annual Report of the Los Angeles Unified School District Proposition 28: The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act) The Proposition 28: Arts and Music in Schools Funding Annual Report is a compliance requirement for each Local Education Agency (LEA) that provides narrative and quantitative details relevant to visual and performing arts base funding and Prop 28 funding, categorical state funds, which serve to supplement visual and performing arts instruction.
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Recommendation
Action Proposed:
Approve the 2025-2026 Proposition 28: Arts and Music in Schools Annual Report (Attachment).
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Background:
On November 8, 2022 California voters approved Proposition 28: The Arts and Music in Schools (AMS) Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act. The measure required the State to establish a new, ongoing program supporting arts instruction in schools beginning in the 2023-24 school year. The funding is allocated to school sites based on student enrollment and, as authorized by the ballot initiative, school sites have three fiscal years to spend each school year’s allocation of funds they receive.
The ballot initiative allocates one percent of kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) portion of the Proposition 98 funding guarantee provided in the prior fiscal year, excluding funding appropriated for the AMS education program. Local educational agencies (LEAs) with 500 or more students are required to ensure that at least 80 percent of AMS funds are used to employ certificated or classified employees to provide arts education program instruction. In LAUSD, instruction is provided only by certificated personnel. The remaining funds must be used for training, supplies and materials and arts educational partnership pr...
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