Saturday, August 28 10 - 11 am

• Hear important school information from Principal Ashley Parker
• Meet new friends
• Find out about Booster Club Parent Organization
• Take a school tour & learn about After School Options.

We want to thank all the Hancock Park School families, friends, teachers and staff for their combined involvement in the Booster Club activities this past year. Despite the economic downturn, we succeeded in meeting our fundraising goals for the year and accomplished some fantastic projects for the school.

Here is the big picture of what we have done and achieved:

General revenues: $225,000.00
Expenses: $240,000.00
Grants Received: $55,000.00

ARTS are at the HEART of SMART
A Celebration of the ARTS as Core Curriculum

On June 4th, we will celebrate Arts Day. Nearly 1,000 LAUSD students (age 5 to 18) will be celebrating the arts through song, dance, acting, music and visual arts. The fifth graders are planning to paint a car! Students, parents and teachers will celebrate the arts and let their community know that:

• We must save Arts Education for our children and the children of the future!!!
• Our schools are nationally recognized leaders in arts education – let’s not go backwards.
• Arts are core curriculum along with math, language arts, science and history/social science.
• We support maintaining and increasing arts education, not the elimination of Arts Programs.

Visual Arts Galleries (K – 5th grades)

8:30am - 2:30pm    
There will be visual arts exhibits in main hallways and auditorium by K - 5th grade students.

Orchestra Performances (3rd, 4th, 5th graders)

8:45am - 9:20am      
First performance    Auditorium

Arts Day Outdoor Performances

1:00pm - 2:00pm                
Outdoors on Green Field

If passed, Measure E would prevent or reduce cuts in classes, teachers and school staff caused by a harsh drop in state funding. The purpose of this Limited Parcel Tax is to maintain school personnel and services.

Due to harsh cuts in state funding, the school district has had to cut or redistribute $1.3 billion in school services in the past two years and is facing more severe cuts for the upcoming school years.  The proposed budget cuts in the arts teacher corps will undo the progress of years and arts learning.

Measure E would levy a limited tax of $100 per year, which averages to $8.33 per month for four years on every parcel of taxable property within the school district.  Low-income persons 65 years of age or over are eligible for an exemption.