Prop 28

On November 8, 2022, California voters approved Proposition 28: The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act. This measure requires the state to establish a new, ongoing program supporting arts instruction in schools beginning in 2023–24. Prop 28 is intended to supplement not supplant existing arts and music education programs.
 
Funding will be automatically allocated by the CDE to each K–12 District using the methodology outlined in subdivision (c) of Education Code Section 8820, which is based on the share of statewide total enrollment and the share of enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils at each eligible school site of the K–12 District. 

State legislation allocates 1% of the K–12 portion of the Proposition 98 guarantee funding provided in the prior fiscal year. Districts with 500 or more students are required to ensure that at least 80% of funds are expended to employ certificated or classified staff to provide arts education program instruction. The remaining 20% of funds must be used for training, supplies and materials, and arts educational partnership programs.  Districts have 3 years to expend annual allocations.

The type of arts programs that Prop 28 can be used for includes but is not limited to instruction and training, supplies, materials, and arts educational partnership programs for instruction in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts including folk art, painting, sculpture, photography, craft arts, creative expression including graphic arts and design, computer coding, animation, music composition, ensembles, script writing, costume design, film, and video.