Pulling Together Outside Resources in Support of Equity
Miko is working to address issues of equity in arts education by utilizing outside resources and synergizing multiple initiatives happening all at once in her area. Marin county is home to 30,000 students in 18 school districts, with schools ranging from extremely wealthy to Title I funded schools with limited community resources. As a result, issues of equity are profound in the region. In order to help address this inequity, Miko has served as a connector, collaborator and leader in elementary data collection, the arts planning process, National Arts in Education Week event planning and the Alliance Arts Now Community program. Reaching well beyond her role as Executive Director of the nonprofit Youth in Arts, Miko has leveraged the collective power of multiple initiatives to address equity issues.
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In November 2016, the California Department of Education, Instructional Quality Commission, and State Board of Education began the process of revising the California Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) content standards. On July 26, 2018, the Instructional Quality Commission opened the public review and comment period for the draft VAPA Standards. The public review and comment period is an important opportunity for stakeholders to provide comments and suggested edits. The feedback received from the public will be considered at a November 15-16, 2018 meeting of the Instructional Quality Commission. The drafts of the standards can be accessed 
The Challenge: How to introduce the 
The Challenge: Middle and high school students simply don’t have time in their schedules for arts education courses
Hi. My name is Xochitl Morales, and I am a 17-year-old high school student from a small town in the Central Valley. I go to a school in Delano that you may know as either Paramount Bard, Paramount Academy, or Wonderful College Preparatory Academy (what we are called now). When I first started going to my school in sixth grade, it was called Paramount Bard.
