September 2003 Newsletter
 SMARTS: BRING BACK THE ARTS CALIFORNIA STATE PTA ONLINE NEWSLETTERSeptember 2003The California State PTA wants to create advocates for quality arts education at every school in California!! Extensive research during the past decade now confirms the arts improve academic and personal success. Please join our efforts to help parents, teachers, and legislators understand the importance of the arts. In this issue:
PTA ARTS BILL UPDATE, SB 469We anticipate that the PTA co-sponsored arts bill SB 469 (Scott) Instructional Materials will be sent to the Governor for signature shortly. The bill was passed by Assembly Appropriations on August 20 by a vote of 22 to 1 and has gone to the floor of the Assembly for approval. You can find out the latest information about this bill by going hereWe urge PTA members to contact the Governor asking him to sign this bill into law. Governor Gray Davis SB 469 authorizes a school district to use instructional materials funding to purchase adopted instructional materials for the visual and performing arts, foreign language, and health or any other curricular area if it certifies that it has provided each pupil with a standards-aligned textbook or basic instructional materials in reading/language arts, mathematics, history/social science, and science. PLANNING FOR A NEW SCHOOL YEAR:Kick-Off the Community Arts Education Project in Your SchoolThe Community Arts Education Project from the PTA and CAAE is a unique strategy manual to support quality arts education in public schools. Review the California Visual and Performing Arts FrameworksAn online evaluation form for the Field Review Draft of the Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve is now available at www.cde.ca.gov/cfir/vpa. Comments and suggestions may be made until September 12, 2003, pending approval by the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission. National Arts and Humanities Month Tool KitOctober is National Arts and Humanities Month. Get ready to celebrate by downloading your tool kit today. Ten Tips for Parents to Keep the Arts in their Children's Liveshttp://www.americansforthearts.org/issues/otherinterests/other_article.asp?id=1006 Visual and Performing Arts Requirements for UC AdmissionsLearn about the UC arts requirements. PBS Teacher Source: Arts and LiteratureView lesson plans and activities; select a grade range and topic. Art Education ResourceCreate art, study art, teach art, play art games at this comprehensive Web site. Dance on the webVisit an Internet resource from the New York Public Library: Illustrator Jan Brett's Home Page2,175 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects: For New Members to Subscribe: If you wish to be added to the subscriber list to this eNewsletter, send an E-mail to SMARTSenews@capta.org. Enter the word "Subscribe" into the subject area or the body of the email and you will automatically be added. For Members to Unsubscribe: If you would like to terminate your subscription to the SMARTS eNewsletter, send an E-mail to SMARTSenews@capta.org and in the subject area type "Remove" or "Unsubscribe" and your name will be removed. For help or to send comments, suggestions, and inquiries send an E-mail to info@capta.org The California State PTA SMARTS e-Newsletter is sent free of charge via the Internet as a service of the California State PTA in the furtherance of its nonprofit and tax-exempt status. Unless otherwise noted, PTAs may reproduce and distribute the materials from the California State PTA Web site for PTA use without express written permission. California State PTA materials may not be duplicated by any other organization or person without written permission. California State PTA
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