| Educators in the San Francisco Public Schools are | | | | Stanford University agrees. He states that "The |
| frustrated by the lack of balance in education. The | | | | arts are fundamental resources through which the |
| recent focus on mandatory testing has moved | | | | world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind |
| schools nationwide away from holistic education. | | | | developed." Arts education has a profound effect |
| And this can have serious consequences on | | | | on students, there's no doubt about it. San |
| children in the San Francisco Schools. | | | | Francisco Schools are finally acknowledging this, |
| Richard Florida in The Flight of the Creative Class | | | | and are acting on it |
| says, "What we really need in order to prepare | | | | In March 2004, voters, in unprecedented |
| our children for the creative economy is a | | | | numbers, passed Proposition H. This proposition |
| comprehensive education. Something that takes | | | | earmarked tens of millions of city funds for |
| them from aesthetics to algebra without | | | | schools, including new funds for arts education. |
| pretending that the two are mutually exclusive." | | | | This had added further community and political |
| Aha! | | | | support to the cause of arts education equity and |
| Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, | | | | access for all San Francisco Schools students. |