Or better yet, a big win for the children in LAUSD.
Thanks to a campaign spearheaded by Arts for LA, and perhaps best personified by this full page ad in the Los Angeles Times, the LAUSD school board decided to reduce the level of proposed cuts to elementary arts education teachers by one-third, rather than by half.
Did they ruffles some feathers: of course, this from the LA Times:
Blume reports that the advertisement angered school board member Steve
Zimmer, among others, because many civic leaders, including some who
signed last week’s arts education ad, did not take leading roles before
last month’s election on behalf of Measure E, a $100 parcel tax that
would have raised an estimated $93 million per year for four years to
offset the need for budget cuts — including elementary arts education.
The measure received 53% of the vote but failed because it needed a
two-thirds super-majority to pass.
