The Music for All blog tracks the efforts and political forces that led to California's astounding public investment in K-12 arts education -- including $105 million in annual block grants for arts and music education, and a one-time, $500 million capital allocation for the purchase of sports, arts, and music equipment.

The new state budget is 500 million miles away from its position a few short years ago, when California appeared to be gutting its public arts infrastructure.

The weblog offers a few lessons learned from the coordinated effort to boost state arts funding. Worth a read if you want to nudge your governor to go the way of Arnold.