Visual and Performing Arts Framework-Complete - Free Downloads (CA Dept of Education)

Education Code Description

Elementary and The governing board of any school district may lend school
Secondary band instruments, music, uniforms, and other regalia to
Education persons who are or have been, during the prior school year,

Local
Administration
CHAPTER 4

members of the school band for use by them on excursions
to foreign countries whether or not such an excursion is
sanctioned by the governing board. The governing board may
require the borrower to make a deposit or take other
Miscellaneous measures to insure that the items borrowed will be returned
Provisions in usable condition. (Operative Jan. 1, 1998)
Article 1

SECTION 38120
Use of school band
equipment on
excursions to
foreign countries

Definitions of the Arts

Education Code

CHAPTER 5
Arts Education

SECTION 8811(a)
Definition of arts
for use by K–12
public schools

CHAPTER 7

SECTION 8951
Arts defined
for use by the
California State
Summer School

Description

“Arts” includes the four disciplines of dance, drama and

theatre, music, and visual arts as set forth in the state’s

adopted curriculum framework for visual and performing arts

as published by the State Department of Education in the

Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools,

Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, and may also include

community support for the various other art forms, including

folk art, film, video, the writing of plays, poetry, and scripts.

As used in this chapter, “arts” includes, but is not limited to,

all of the following: dance; theatre; music; folk art; creative

writing; visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography,

and craft arts; design, including graphic arts, computer

graphics, and costume design; film; and video. (Amended by

Stats. 2001, eff. Oct. 11, 2001.)

Appendix A