Panel 1 - the promise of Prop 28 and how it will work in schools. Austin Beutner, Moderator Tony Thurmond, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction David Goldberg, California Teachers Association President Max Arias, Executive Director of SEIU Local 99
LAUNCH: Arts and Music in Schools
May 22, 2023, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
The Music Center, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Transcript:
Let's start with the school year. The money going to come, how's it going to work, a little bit of the mechanics so that we can make sure educators throughout the state of California know this is for real. It's going to happen.
Thanks.I wish it would happen as quickly as you said. Right. But unfortunately, there are a few more steps. The legislature has to have its time with this program.
As we speak, they're debating a budget, and that budget will be final eyes by June. And that means that there'll be all the I's dotted and T's crossed so that the school will see the money. The resources will start to flow to school districts by this fall.
Decisions are being made about who can teach, and we'll have both teachers and classified staff helping to deliver arts and music education. But we're going to need 15,000 more educators to make this happen. So all these conversations are happening at lots of levels, but this is an incredible investment.
The resources will begin to flow directly to our schools by fall, and we will be having conversations about how we begin to train and place the educators who will be providing the arts and music education in our schools.
That's great. So let me just reinforce that. So in case anybody missed, it's on track.It's on track. The voters approve sort of an elegant design, if you will, like an architect, but you got a team of plumbers and carpenters hard at work to make sure they're building the right house.
And so what I think what this does also is it gets us out of the scarcity mentality, and it really lifts and elevates first the value of our students, the value of arts, hopefully through the arts and through music and through an equity lens, we could also start just seeing the assets that every community has. Right.
What Max was talking about, will I am was talking about bring those assets into our schools. And so, as an educator, we've been waiting for this. We've been dying for this. We've been absolutely starved at the vine. And it really is an investment, we feel like in us and our students in a way that's really exciting.
So I really appreciate all of you who played a role in making this happen and your leadership on this. Thank you, David.
Thank you. And we have a vision at local and this is a vision. I know that we don't have enough teachers. There is an opportunity if we think differently and look at the school district as a place where you can also start creating opportunities for the adults working there to learn something or to learn a profession or to become teachers.
That is why this to me, takes a different dimension. It adds to that opportunity. It adds through that type of process. We can start incentivizing also because there's going to be more resources, right. And more funding to start creating that pipework that you can become now an arts teacher as well.
There's not one single person or one single institution that's going to figure this out. It's going to have to be figured out in the 10,000 schools. And that's why it's important that we do it. So we see many opportunities and hope for this.
No person who is teaching arts or music is going to get replaced. It is written into the law and the statute that is now being created that says these funds cannot supplant existing positions.
So that means anyone who is being told that they're being let go, call my office and we're happy. Just call 1800 Tony. Get at me. We will help to shine a light and spotlight and clarify and whatever else we need to do to make sure that those kinds of abuses do not take place.
This was very thoughtfully crafted to prevent against someone being laid off. This is to supplement, not supplant. This is something that will provide tremendous momentum as we move forward in preparing a workforce for tomorrow. But this program, thoughtfully crafted, is not going to allow any teacher or a person teaching arts or music to get laid off because there's this new funding it is going to add to.
And if that weren't enough, Austin Beutner has a lot of friends and he's created this oversight committee that is providing oversight to the oversight of the implementation of the Prop 28. We're not going to let that go.
Thank you, David and Max, for being part of it. So we're going to stay on it.
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