Cal Poly arts in education projects: changing pedagogy and cultivating the arts in rural school districts.

When examining causal relationships that contribute to thriving arts education programs at state and local levels, one tends to look to legislative actions and policies that have traditionally supported the arts or that minimally did no harm to the arts in public education. Yet one piece of California legislation now twenty-five years old did irreparable damage to what had been a strong arts education program in public education.

The grass-roots tax reform effort spearheaded by Howard Jarvis in 1978 greatly weakened arts education programs in public schools throughout the state and ...

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