Powerful unions and Prop. 28 author Austin Beutner say school districts are misusing money for expanding K-12 arts education and call for state intervention.
Powerful unions have joined forces with former Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner to call for state intervention to stop what they allege is the misuse of voter-approved funding to expand arts education in California. In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials, Beutner and the unions claim that some school districts are taking funding, approved by voters in November 2022, to expand arts education and are using it for other purposes.
At that school, the issue was raised by Audrey Lieberstein, a parent leader in the PTA and the school's governing councils, who provided school budget documents and copies of correspondence with L.A. Unified to The Times. In her emails to district officials, Lieberstein noted that last year's school budget set aside $48,766 for a two-day-a-week arts teacher. There was no such provision in this year's budget, according to the budget documents.
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