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Arts council and Kids Orchestra describe programs as board approves $510,000 in arts contracts
Summary
The board approved a $445,000 Kids Orchestra after‑school contract and a $65,000 arts‑integration contract with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Mike Castaneda, the Arts Council’s director of arts and education, summarized arts-integration work and mural plans and asked for continued partnership.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board Committee of the Whole voted July 9 to approve professional-service contracts funding after‑school orchestra programming and arts‑integration instruction.
The board approved a $445,000 contract for a Kids Orchestra after‑school program and a $65,000 contract with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge to provide arts-integrated instruction and programming (Title IV and general‑fund sources were cited). Mike Castaneda, director of arts and education for the Arts Council, told the board the organization has worked with the district since the early 2000s and outlined programming that brings arts into core academic classes, a Jazz Master Series and an Arts in Motion program that reached roughly 20 schools last year.
Castaneda said the future contract includes plans for four murals at district schools and expansion of arts integration to two additional schools. He asked the board to view the contract as an investment in student engagement and culture. The board invited the Arts Council to present again at the July 23 regular meeting when a larger number of board members are expected to attend.
The item passed on a voice vote with no roll-call tally provided in the transcript.
