Title
Sacramento Arts Education Efforts and Proposition 28 Discussion
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FileID
File ID: 2026-01144
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Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation
Recommendation: Receive and comment.
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Contact
Contact: Jason Jong, Cultural and Creative Economy Manager, Office of Arts and Culture, (916) 808-5105, jjong@cityofsacramento.org, Convention and Cultural Services Department.
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Presenter
Presenter: Allison Cagley, Executive Director, Friends of Sacramento Arts; Charles “CJ” DeAngelus, Arts Integration Coordinator, Sacramento County Office of Education.
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Attachments
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-FOSA and SCOE Presentation to ACCEC
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Description/Analysis
IssueDetail
Issue Detail: The purpose of this item is to receive information around California Proposition 28, the Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act approved by California voters in 2022, which guarantees ongoing annual funding for arts and music education in all PK–12 public and charter schools. Local arts education leaders will provide background information, discuss current implementation, and provide resources that can be utilized to help schools, parents and arts organizations work together to increase arts and music in schools.
The first goal of the 2018 Creative Edge Culture Plan addresses the need for more arts education in TK-12 public schools. With that goal in mind, then-Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the Office of Arts and Culture, and the Sacramento County Office of Education launched Friends of Sacramento Arts (FOSA), a nonprofit to take the lead in several of the goal’s objectives.
Since 2019 and under the direction of Allison Cagley, FOSA has become a regional voice and resource for Proposition 28, and has expanded to serving Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties school districts and arts organizations as well as serving as a member of a statewide policy council.
Charles “CJ” DeAngelus, of Sacramento County Off...
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