To: Superintendent, Alberto M. Carvalho
From: LAUSD Board Vice President, Scott M. Schmerelson
Subject: Proposition 28 – Arts Funding
Date: June 5, 2024
As you know, in light of the new funding provided by Proposition 28, I met with your staff to
discuss the need to provide school staff, parents and community members information on arts
instruction funding. I continue to receive many questions about whether the District is meeting
the obligations of state funding. Many have looked into their own schools’ budgets and have
been unable to understand whether they are receiving the appropriate funding at their school
sites.
They have expressed the following two key concerns:
● Did they receive the appropriate Proposition 28 allocation of $111 per enrolled student
and the additional $78 for each Title 1 student? and
● What is the past and current arts instruction funding provided to their school site so they
can determine if Prop 28 funds are being used appropriately to add, rather than replace
prior arts program instructional funding?
I believe presentations at Board meetings and materials distributed need to be clear and easy to
understand. So far, this has not been the case.
We must be able to show the public that we are complying with funding regulations.
I hope that you can provide the answers to these basic questions to me and the public before
our next board meeting. I also would like to schedule an additional Committee of the Whole
meeting for an extensive discussion of this topic so we can put this issue to rest.
c. Board Members
Devora Navera Reed Saman Bravo-Karimi
Pedro Salcido Nirupama Jayaraman
Karla V. Estrada Nolberto Delgadillo
Kristen K. Murphy
Amanda Wherritt
Jaime Torrens
Michael McLean
David Hart