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Since it was founded 25 years ago, artworxLA has served more than 12,000 — providing arts education for students at risk of dropping out.
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The question that's guided Nicole Robinson's 21 years as a teacher at Fontana A.B. Miller High School: "How can give them more?"
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The Creative Industry Coalition is building up partnerships with studios and production companies to provide classroom visits and equipment donations to schools.
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Create CA, a state arts education group, has developed a "Declaration of the Rights of All Students to Equity in Arts Learning." It hopes school districts will adopt it.
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Eighth graders across the country were quizzed in 2016 on their knowledge and skills in visual arts and music. Just like in 2008, the results weren't great.
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Local government arts agencies are holding an Arts Datathon aimed at cultivating ideas for increasing access to the arts in L.A. County.
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This one wasn't as cut-throat as the TV show on ABC, so organizers jokingly referred to it as "Dolphin Pool," said career services director Rita Soultanian.
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Tom Torlakson, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced today that 83.2 percent of students in the class of 2016 graduated – a record high.
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In continuation high schools, for teens at risk of dropping out, arts instruction is sparse. On Friday, a play made by and for these students opens in East L.A.
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After a series of town halls and surveys, the board of supervisors passed 13-item plan for increasing diversity in arts institutions.
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The Expressive Therapies Summit equips artists and mental health workers with new tools to help patients process trauma and grief.
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Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary is betting on the arts to turn the school around. As part of the process, teachers are learning new ways to engage students.
