Arts Education in California K-12 schools

Reading: http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasLocalPartnerships.pdf This is a report on school and community partnerships to support Arts education in California public schools. Six case studies are presented.

This is a follow-up to SRI's initial publication, An Unfinished Canvas:

http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasFullReport.pdf

I'm skimming this report now with a bookmark to return to it later, but the question I have in mind is this: what is the impact on high school graduates who don't have preparation in analyzing images on attending and succeeding in college? Or, getting into college at all? From page 25:

"In California, however, meeting the minimum high school graduation requirements is not sufficient for admission to the state’s public institutions of higher education. In 1999, the UC and CSU systems instituted a new VPA requirement, adding 1 year of arts coursework for university admission.8 The VPA requirement was phased in for students beginning high school in 1999.
Starting in 2003, when the first cohort of affected high school students reached college, they were required to have taken any two semesters of arts to be admitted; starting in 2004, students admitted were required to have taken two semesters of the same arts subject; and, starting in 2006, students were required to have taken a single course in a yearlong sequence, with the second-semester course a continuation of the first-semester course (Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, 2000). These university policies are a means to increase arts curriculum at the secondary
level without statewide legislation."