United Teachers Los Angeles has reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with Los Angeles Unified School District that would restore at least 134 elementary arts teachers in 2011/2012.

Bennett Kayser has officially won the runoff election for LAUSD School Board 5th District seat after an extremely close election.  The Los Angeles Times reports that Kayser won by only 600 votes, receiving 10,700 total votes in an election with less than 10% voter turnout. 

Arts for LA is pleased to release the results of candidate surveys for Los Angeles City Council, Pasadena City Council, Burbank Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified School

Arts for LA will be conducting a survey all of the candidates running for LA City Council, LAUSD Board, Pasadena City Council and Pasadena USD Board prior to the March 8, 2011 elections.  LA City and Pasadena are the sites of our current advocacy workshop series, with the goal of creating a team of arts advocates to ensure that the arts are part of the election disco

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Steve Zimmer represents Board District 4 on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. 

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that L.A. Unified will restore $5 million in arts education funding to next year's budget, reducing the total cuts from approximately 50% to 33%.