Woodland Unified School District - Proposition 28 Arts and Music in Schools

Proposition 28 Arts and Music in Schools

On November 8, 2022, California voters approved Proposition 28: The Arts and Music in Schools (AMS) Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act. The measure required the state to establish a new, ongoing program supporting arts instruction in schools beginning in 2023–24.

The legislation allocates 1 percent of the kindergarten through grade twelve (K–12) portion of the Proposition 98 funding guarantee provided in the prior fiscal year, excluding funding appropriated for the AMS education program. Local educational agencies (LEAs) with 500 or more students are required to ensure that at least 80 percent of AMS funds to be expended are used to employ certificated or classified employees to provide arts education program instruction. The remaining funds must be used for training, supplies and materials, and arts educational partnership programs, with no more than 1 percent of funds received to be used for an LEA’s administrative expenses.

California Education Code Section 8820(g) states that, as a condition of receipt of funds, a local educational agency (LEA) shall annually

certify that all AMS funds will be used to provide arts education programs and that AMS funds expended in the prior fiscal year were, in fact, used for those purposes;
for LEAs with an enrollment of 500 or more pupils, the certification shall also ensure that at least 80 percent of AMS funds to be expended will be used to employ certificated or classified employees to provide arts education program instruction and that the remaining funds will be used for training, supplies and materials, and arts educational partnership programs—unless a waiver has been granted (see Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 28–29 for information on waivers);
certify that AMS funds received will be used to supplement funding for arts education programs and that AMS funds expended in the prior fiscal year were, in fact, used to supplement arts education programs (see FAQ 22 for information on supplement verse supplant);
certify that no more than 1 percent of AMS funds received will be used for a LEA’s administrative expenses to implement this chapter and that AMS funds received in the prior fiscal year were, in fact, used within that limit (see FAQ 18 for information on administrative expenses); and
submit an annual board- or body-approved report in a manner determined by the Superintendent, that shall be posted on the LEA and the California Department of Education's internet websites and that details the type of arts education programs funded by the program, the number of full-time equivalent teachers, classified personnel, and teaching aides, the number of pupils served, and the number of school sites providing arts education programs with those funds

The 2023-24 allocation for WJUSD is 1,607,793.07. The district has until June 2027 to spend these funds. The annual certification report is linked below.

2023-24 Annual Certification Report