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California has always been a hotbed of education organizing and reform. Catch up on efforts to fund the arts in public schools, the impact of COVID on students, college financial aid, ethnic studies curriculums and more.

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Students and faculty assemble outside the State Normal School in 1904
What are the roles of free speech, the performing arts, cultural politics and the humanities within the university campus? UCLA professors Bryonn Bain, Jerry Kang, David Schaberg and Robert Watson discuss "What is a University?"
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Fifty years ago this month, Alain Leroy Locke Senior High School became the first new high school built in the central city in a half a century. Its music program would soon put the school on the map.
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When the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities issued its letter of resignation August 18, it was the final move in a long chess game to protect and advance the arts under a changing administration.
 How Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Undermines Civil Rights & Favors Predatory Lenders Over Students
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Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, joins us to discuss recent developments with billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools.
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Begun in 1970, the Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival is California’s longest continuing free arts education initiative and has introduced more than 845,000 young L.A. students to the magic and inspiration of the performing arts.
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March on Washington, 28 August, 1963.
Echoing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, we might say that the manacles of criminalization cripple many of today’s immigrants. 
Animation by Andrew Dugan, an Exceptional Minds student (featured)
Exceptional Minds, a school for individuals with autism, has quickly made a name for itself in both the animation and visual effects worlds.
Flea of Red hot Chili Peppers on the Silverlake Conservatory of Music
It was established to fill the gaps left by budget cuts to music education. Now the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, co-founded by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has a shiny new building that's eight times larger than it's former storefront home.
Summer Encounter The Colburn School
The Colburn School’s Summer Encounter is an intensive two-week camp for arts-hungry kids. In its 15th year, the program offers students the opportunity to explore a variety of art disciplines.
Colburn Conservatory Class
There's value in having knowledge of the humanities -- no matter what you're doing, whether it's playing a violin or writing code.
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Birding? Beach Cleanup? Nuclear meltdown tours? SoCal Earth Day has something for everyone.
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California Senate Bill 916 aims to create single-subject teaching credentials in the subjects of dance and theater.
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