About Us


The California Alliance for Arts Education promotes, supports, and advocates visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California schools [click here for CAAE Statements of Belief].

The California Alliance for Arts Education and its member organizations:

• Facilitate a statewide arts education information network

• Advocate for statewide policies to ensure that every student benefits from an arts education

• Educate state and local policymakers and parent organizations about the benefits of the arts as a as integral to a complete education

• Recognize student achievement in the arts and promote arts education excellence in California schools

• Develop strategies to ensure standards-based instruction and professional development of qualified teachers and artists

• Initiate collaborations with local, state and national arts and education agencies to develop programs and resources