This blog by Learning In Afterschool and Summer: A Project of Temescal Associates and The How Kids Learn Foundation, is a conversation between EdSource writer Karen D’Souza and Jessica Mele, a Program Officer in Performing Arts at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Jessica Mele manages a diverse portfolio of grants focused in arts education advocacy and policy. Their conversation is a discussion about the arts in education, its impact on the lives of students, and why it matters, as well as the recent passage of Prop. 28 in 2022. 

Check out the discussion here!