• Providing all children access to arts education is a fundamental matter of social justice and equity.
• Every child deserves high-quality arts instruction in a rigorous, sustained curriculum of Music, Drama, Dance, and Visual Arts.
• Professional Teaching Artists are essential to an effective arts education program that builds skills, understanding and confident self-expression.
• Sequential, discipline-based arts instruction belongs in the school day alongside the other core subjects.
• Early and ongoing arts education contributes to personal and intellectual growth, and promotes the development of creative, academic, and social skills.
• The arts foster human connections across cultures, nurture a collaborative spirit among individuals, and provide expression of the uniqueness of each child.
  
  

Our Students and Schools

P.S. ARTS currently provides arts programs to more than 11,000 students in Southern and Central California.  P.S. ARTS believes that all students deserve arts education and therefore provides programs to the most underserved schools in the community.  We partner with Title I and other severely socio-economically disadvantaged schools. Title I schools are classified as schools with at least 40% of the population living at or below the Federal Poverty Level, which is an annual income of less than $22,500 for a family of four.

Why P.S. ARTS?

As the arts are being eliminated from public schools in underserved areas of Los Angeles County and California’s Central Valley, children are in dire need of additional educational tools and new approaches to achieving academic success.  P.S. ARTS is the only artists-in-residence program that serves an entire school and seamlessly integrates Teaching Artists into the regular school day for the full school year.  As an already established, trusted, and integral presence in 25 underserved schools, P.S. ARTS is in a particularly good position to step up to the challenge, support schools in weathering this state budget crisis, and level the educational playing field for children struggling with economic, ability, or literacy barriers. 


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