QUICK TAKES - April 14, 2009
Araceli Ruano, a player in the problem-plagued bid to launch a $242-million arts high school in downtown Los Angeles, has taken on an additional leadership role in the local arts scene as president of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
The commission oversees a $4.5-million arts grant program. Ruano has been a member since 2005.
Ruano chairs Discovering the Arts, a citizens group formed in 2005 to advise the Los Angeles Unified School District on establishing the architecturally splendid but organizationally adrift arts academy in downtown L.A.
Scheduled to open in the fall, the high school has yet to recruit a director and a faculty or to adopt an arts curriculum.
-- Mike Boehm
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