Adopted March 1985 – Reviewed and deemed relevant April 2022 – Education Commission
California State PTA believes visual and performing arts should be a basic and integral part of a balanced curriculum for all students.
California State PTA believes the visual and performing arts can:
- Enhance students’ academic performance in all curricular areas;
- Teach a common core of knowledge that will encourage students to appreciate human history and cultures;
- Enable students to develop higher order thinking skills;
- Enable students to discover and to express their own creativity; and
- Help students to develop a life-long appreciation of the arts.
California State PTA believes a quality arts program should be:
- Structured, sequential, and standards based;
- Offered as an integral part of the regularly scheduled instructional program K-12;
- Taught by qualified teachers who have received appropriate training and in-service programs;
- Enhanced by specialists in the arts who lend their expertise to the arts program;
- Provided to students in facilities specially designed for arts programs;
- Supported by high quality materials and resources;
- An opportunity to explore careers in the arts; and
- A high school graduation requirement.
