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    Powerful unions allege California schools are misusing arts education money, demand state intervention

    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Apr 02, 2024 5 minutes
    Students from Sonoma and Mendocino County schools display their works at Gualala Arts Center as part of a rotating exhibition.

    LOS ANGELES — Powerful unions have joined forces with former Los Angeles schools Superintendent 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. This year that funding totals $938 million.

    The unions that signed the letter are California Teachers Association, the largest state teachers union, and CFT, the other major statewide teachers union. Also signing the letter are the largest unions in the L.A. Unified School District: Local 99 of Service Employees International Union, which represents the greatest number of non-teaching school employees, and United Teachers Los Angeles, the second-largest teachers union local

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