The LA County Arts Education Collective tracks and publishes reports to help the field get smarter about how to advance arts education in the County.
Arts for All School Arts Survey: Measuring Quality, Access and Equity in Arts Education
Was developed to measure access to and quality of arts instruction at the school site level as well as to develop a system for collecting and reporting the data.
Arts for All: Higher Education Think Tank (Final Report)
On Friday, May 7, 2010, Arts for All in partnership with California State University at Northridge, hosted the Arts for All Higher Education Think Tank. This event brought together decision makers throughout the education community to begin to discuss how to strategically address quality arts education in teacher preparation programs in order to impact teacher practice and student learning.
Arts for All: The Vanguard Districts
The following report contains findings from case studies of the first 11 districts to join the initiative, six in 2003-2004 and five in 2004-2005. These initial districts, referred to as the Vanguard Districts, developed strategic plans to guide efforts to offer sequential, standards based arts instruction for all students.
Arts Education Performance Indicators Report (2008)
The 2008 Arts Education Performance Indicators (AEPI) report marks a milestone in arts education in Los Angeles County. Since the last AEPI report in 2005, significant progress has been made toward building infrastructure to support sequential K-12 arts education in the 81 school districts in the County.
Arts Education Performance Indicators Report (2005)
The data provided in this report gives a County-wide picture of the status of arts education with regard to five critical success factors in 2005.
Arts Education Brief: Trends Since 2005
A one-page handout summarizing our findings when we analyzed data on arts courses, enrollment and teachers that was reported by school districts to the California Department of Education (CDE).
Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education (2004 Update)
Since 2002, when the Blueprint was adopted, much progress has been made toward achieving its vision and many new partners have been engaged in the process.
Arts Education Performance Indicators Report (2003)
These Arts Education Performance Indicators (AEPI) document the status of arts education in each of the County’s 82 school districts. As the first ongoing examination of arts education in Los Angeles County, this report provides a framework to evaluate self-reported school district data on critical success factors for arts education.
Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education
Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Art presents a comprehensive series of policy changes, educational initiatives, and establishment of a new infrastructure to promote systemic and balanced provision of the arts, and identifies the roles of key stakeholders. The Blueprint proposes that systemic change can only occur through the cooperative participation of all stakeholders and by working to develop supportive policy and action at each level of involvement.
Arts in Focus: Los Angeles Countywide Arts Education Survey
Arts in Focus: Los Angeles Countywide Arts Education Survey is the baseline study of the state of arts education in the most populous county in the nation.