Accountability: Guaranteeing Every Child's Right to Art.
We are the legal and data infrastructure—**Nexus Dawn**—dedicated to enforcing California's Proposition 28, securing the **\$800M to \$1 Billion annual funding stream** for equitable arts and music education.
The Enforcement Accelerator: An EPA for Arts Education
Nexus Dawn functions as the **indispensable digital conduit** for transforming K-12 arts education. Our primary role is to enforce accountability, ensuring that mandated Prop 28 funding reaches students through the employment of **credentialed arts teachers and staff.**
We accelerate enforcement by collecting, validating, and publicly visualizing data regarding statutory non-compliance, compelling state entities to impose financial sanctions when educational requirements are unmet.
Nexus Analytics: Compliance Audit
Automated monitoring of Local Educational Agency (LEA) annual reports to flag violations of the core 80% personnel expenditure rule.
Nexus Advocacy: UCP Funnel
The Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP) Submission Tool provides templated, data-verified forms to empower parents and advocates to trigger formal state investigations.
Nexus Repository: Student-Centered Pedagogy
We host Open Education Resources (OER) for integrated VAPA, Gardens, and Vocational skills, ensuring curriculum quality reflects an inverted hierarchy of student need.
Enforcing the Mandatory 80% Personnel Rule
The California Prop 28 Requirement
The Arts and Music in Schools (AMS) Act is clear: Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) with over 500 students **must** expend a minimum of **80 percent** of their allocated AMS funds to employ certificated or classified employees who provide arts education instruction. This focus on personnel, rather than materials, is the key to ensuring sustained, high-quality programs.
80% = Credentialed Personnel
We track this metric relentlessly. When LEAs fail to meet this threshold, it is a clear denial of mandated educational opportunity, particularly for economically disadvantaged students.
Actionable Data
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Compliance Scorecard: Publicly ranking LEAs based on their adherence to the 80% mandate.
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UCP Filing Templates: Simplifying the process for citizens to initiate formal legal action against non-compliant districts.
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Data-backed Litigation: Generating the evidence base required to compel the Attorney General to impose sanctions, including withholding state general apportionment.
Fund the Data that Drives Legal Compliance
Your contribution directly powers the Nexus Analytics engine, providing the irrefutable evidence required to hold large school districts accountable and enforce equitable access.
INVEST IN ARTS ADVOCACYTransparency and Actionable Results
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Minimum Compliance Target
The statutory minimum portion of Prop 28 funds required for LEAs to spend on certificated arts personnel, which we actively monitor.
UCP Funnel
Mass Complaint Architecture
We track and facilitate Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) filings, turning individual complaints into aggregated legal evidence.
Data Integrity
FERPA and Compliance Focus
Our data ingestion and security protocol focuses strictly on public aggregate data (FTEs, expenditures) to ensure legal defensibility and compliance.
See our official non-profit registration and annual reports on NexusDawn.org and ARTSGVPT.org for full financial transparency.