Ivanhoe urgently needs your help.  LAUSD is cutting our arts program in half and eliminating it altogether in 2011.  This is unacceptable and we need to let our district know that we will not go down without a fight.

Please sign the petition below and more importantly, send a letter to every member of the school board. Click the link to get names and addresses of all school board members along with a letter you can copy and paste.

Please take five minutes to do this today.  We cannot afford to lose our arts program.

1. Click here to sign the on-line petition (Forward this link to friends at other schools, parents of young children yet to enter school, and family members...all residents of Los Angeles County over 18 can sign the petition.)

2. Learn about  the LAUSD Arts Program

3. Attend Protest Rally December 8th - after school until 6 pm

4. Email every board member.  You can copy text from the bottom of this page and cut and paste for each email

To Select all the emails click here:

Board Member Email Addresses:

Superintendent_RamonCortines@LAUSD.NET

steve.zimmer@lausd.net

yolie.flores.aguilar@lausd.net

marguerite.lamotte@lausd.net

monica.garcia@lausd.net

tamar.galatzan@lausd.net

nury.martinez@lausd.net

richard.vladovic@lausd.net

 

Board Member Phone Numbers:

LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines

333 S. Beaudry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-241-7000
Steve Zimmer - Board District 4

213-241-6387
Yolie Flores - Board District 5

213-241-6383
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte - Board District 1 ­

213-241-6382
Mónica García - Board District 2

213-241-6180
Tamar Galatzan - Board District 3

213-241-6386
Nury Martinez - Board District 6

213-241-6388
Dr. Richard Vladovic - Board District 7

213-241-6385 

 

Here is the sample email text:

 

Subject: Save the Arts at LAUSD

 

Dear Superintendent Cortines and LAUSD Board Members,

 

I recently learned that the budget cuts announced last year are about to go into effect and cripple the arts programs in LAUSD.  I do not think it is reasonable for our children to shoulder the responsibility for our statewide budget deficits with cuts to their vital arts instructional programs.

Our children deserve a full, well-rounded, rich, diverse education – of which the arts are a primary and central part. Arts are an academic core subject that is essential to our children and must be funded as consistently as math and language arts.

 

As a concerned and dedicated parent, I am holding you to your commitment to our children, to arts instruction for students in grades K-12, and to the consistent funding of LAUSD Arts Education Programs now and into the future.
 

Thank you,

 

Your full name

Parent at Ivanhoe Elementary School