Mr. Richard G. Burrows This is Me

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1. 1. Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) Board of Directors

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   Published on: 6/13/2008   Last Visited: 6/13/2008

   Richard Burrows - Director of Arts Education, Los Angeles Unified School District

2. 2. westwindbrass.org

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   Published on: 4/9/2008   Last Visited: 6/15/2008

   , Richard G. Burrows, director of arts education, Los Angeles Unified School District Middle School, High School and College Music Programs

3. 3. www.palisadespost.com

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   Published on: 10/24/2007   Last Visited: 10/26/2007

   Instead the entire program was cut because of a six percent pay raise for teachers, which was retroactive, according to Richard Burrows, LAUSD Director of Arts Education.
   
   'I had to make a choice,' Burrows said. 'I chose to protect all the teachers in all the schools, and rather than cutting them, I suspended the festival for a year.'
   
   In addition, Burrows cut professional development days, Web development, two staff positions in his office and conference attendance (which pays registration fees, travel, sub-release time, and money for teachers to attend arts conferences and professional development).Burrows had hoped that new arts funding from the state of California might be a source of replacing the money needed for the Honors Music Festival.AB181l provides $11.3 million annually towards art education, but the money can be used only for new programs'not the festival.Burrows said there are plans to use this new money to bring dance visual arts and choral teachers into schools that currently don't have these programs.
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   'The cuts are painful,' Burrows said,, 'but I am looking for ways to bring the festival back next year.'