{"id":933,"date":"2006-08-16T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/08\/the_path_to_californias_500_mi\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T16:37:23","slug":"the_path_to_californias_500_mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_path_to_californias_500_mi.php","title":{"rendered":"The path to California&#8217;s $500 million for arts education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Music for All blog tracks the efforts and political forces that led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.music-for-all.org\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/how_the_west_wa.html#more\">California&#8217;s astounding public investment in K-12 arts education<\/a> &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The weblog offers a few lessons learned from the coordinated effort to boost state arts funding. Worth a read if you want to nudge <i>your<\/i> governor to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/12\/news\/top_stories\/22_11_338_11_06.txt\">the way of Arnold<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Music for All blog tracks the efforts and political forces that led to California&#8217;s astounding public investment in K-12 arts education &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}