• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
SRI logo
  • About
    • Press room
    • Our history
  • Expertise
    • Advanced imaging systems
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Biomedical R&D services
    • Biomedical sciences
    • Computer vision
    • Cyber & formal methods
    • Education and learning
    • Innovation strategy and policy
    • National security
    • Ocean & space
    • Quantum
    • Robotics, sensors & devices
    • Speech & natural language
    • Video test & measurement
  • Ventures
  • NSIC
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • 日本支社
Search
Close
Education & learning publications August 15, 2022

The Role of California’s County Offices of Education and Implications for Arts Education

Candice Benge, Katrina Woodworth, Mary M. Klute, Carolina Zamora, Eliese Rulifson

Citation

Copy to clipboard


Benge, C., Woodworth, K., Klute, M., Fields, X., Zamora, M.C., Rulifson, Levin-Güracar, E., & Jimenez, C. (2022). The role of California’s County Offices of Education and implications for arts education. SRI International.

Introduction

With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, SRI Education conducted a statewide study examining the role County Offices of Education (COEs) play in supporting arts education in California. This study follows a 2007 study of arts education in California, An Unfinished Canvas, and its recent 2020 update, Creativity Challenge. A key finding of the updated study was an increase in the degree to which schools rely on COEs to support arts education.  

This study describes the COE role in arts education, examines how COE activities have shifted in response to California’s Local Control Funding Formula, and examines how these changes may affect access, participation, quality, and equity in arts education in K-12 schools. The goal was to inform county leaders and arts education stakeholders at all levels of the education system as they continue their efforts to expand access to arts education as envisioned in the California Arts Standards and called for in the California Education Code. 

Specifically, the SRI study team sought to address the following research questions:  

  • How has the role of COEs changed over time?  
  • How does the state’s arts education infrastructure support COE arts activities? What local infrastructure supports COE arts activities?  
  • What COE arts activities help build district capacity for the arts? How many COEs participate in these?  
  • What other COE activities offer opportunities to improve arts education? 

To address these questions, the study team conducted gathered information at the state, regional, and local level by conducting interviews, collecting and reviewing planning documents, and fielding a survey of COE arts leads. 

Overall, study findings point to COEs as a critical piece of the arts education ecosystem and reveals disparities in COE capacity, mostly based on COE size. Furthermore, because arts education is largely left out of the state’s accountability system, we found variation in the degree to which arts leads are included in strategic planning and budgeting decisions. Additionally, it was found that COE arts leads and court and community school administrators are siloed from one another. This siloing likely contributes to the lack of access to arts education in COE-run court and community schools (described in Creativity Challenge: Arts Education in California’s Court and Community Schools). 

↓ Download PDF

Share this

How can we help?

Once you hit send…

We’ll match your inquiry to the person who can best help you.

Expect a response within 48 hours.

Career call to action image

Make your own mark.

Search jobs

Our work

Case studies

Publications

Timeline of innovation

Areas of expertise

Institute

Leadership

Press room

Media inquiries

Compliance

Careers

Job listings

Contact

SRI Ventures

Our locations

Headquarters

333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA

+1 (650) 859-2000

Subscribe to our newsletter


日本支社
SRI International
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • DMCA
  • Copyright © 2023 SRI International
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}