Kevin Frazier is the MC of the event announcing the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure, including Austin
Beutner, event MC Kevin Frazier, as well as leaders of entertainment, labor, arts and community organizations, announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Austin Beutner and fellow proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Kevin Frazier introduces 8th grader Emily Lopez talking about her animation class at Palm Middle School during an event announcing the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Kevin Frazier is the MC of the event announcing the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Austin Beutner and fellow proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Austin Beutner and fellow proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure, including Austin
Beutner, event MC Kevin Frazier, as well as leaders of entertainment, labor, arts and community organizations, announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Austin Beutner and fellow proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure announce the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
An effort to increase funding for arts and music education in California schools has reached a milestone, with organizers recently submitting more than 1 million signatures to place a statewide measure on the November general election ballot.
Campaign organizers held an event at Hamilton High School in L.A. on Tuesday, April 26, to officially kick off the campaign and to celebrate the milestone.
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The “Arts and Music in Public Schools” ballot measure would steer about $800 million more each year – nearly double the current amount – into art and music programs in K-12 public schools. Campuses that serve a greater number of low-income Black and Latino students would receive more funding.
Organizers need 263,200 valid signatures from voters for the measure to make it onto the ballot. Former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner, who is spearheading the campaign, said in January his goal was to collect at least 1 million signatures to ensure the measure qualified for the ballot.
Petitions with the signatures – which still need to be verified – were submitted to election officials in all 58 counties in the state last week.
