Understand Your CA Prop 28 Arts Funding Options
In November 2022, CA voters passed Proposition 28 to ensure long term funding for Arts and Music in Schools (AMS). Prop 28 requires that 80% of the funds allocated to a district with 500 or more students “are used to employ certificated or classified employees to provide arts education program instruction. The remaining funds must be used for training, supplies and materials, and arts educational partnership programs. No more than 1 percent of funds received to be used for an LEA’s [district] administrative expenses.”
What that means is that while a district must use the 80% of its allocated funds to hire arts teachers, the remaining 20% portion of the funds can be used to bring community programs like Dream A World Education‘s programs into schools. That 20% percentage earmarked for training, supplies or for partnership organizations, may be increased if a district applies for a waiver. Find out more information about the Prop 28 Waiver option, visit CreateCA’s excellent guide for Prop 28 funding and see questions 28 and 29 for information about how your District can apply for a waiver.
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