The way Sacramento pays for arts education is broken. Here’s what could help. Sacramento-based author and pioneer in gay and lesbian fiction. How to preserve Mayan languages and hieroglyphic script.

Arts education

Sacramento Education Reporter Srishti Prabha shares their reporting on Proposition 28 which, passed in 2022, marked a historic investment for arts education in California public schools. That, along with an arts block grant, were to be the solution for three decades of funding strains in arts education. However, Srishti explains why Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget will decrease funding for the arts, as well as how the current limitations of arts education funding in K-12 schools prompt more challenges than solutions.

Sacramento-based LGBTQ pioneer in fiction

According to the American Library Association– the largest and oldest library association in the world– in 2022 there were a record number of demands to censor library books and materials across the country. The vast majority involved topics about the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. In response, the Sacramento Public Library is hosting its latest in-depth speaker series “Enters the Chat” with Sacramento-based author Ann Bannon, a pioneer in gay and lesbian fiction, known for The Beebo Brinker Chronicles which earned her the title "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction." Bannon, as well as Sacramento Public Library Director and CEO Peter Coyl, join Insight ahead of Bannon’s speaker series on June 22 at 6 p.m. at the Library Galleria.

Preserving Mayan langugage

Anthropologist and epigrapher Dr. Michael J. Grofe, President of Mayas for Ancient Mayan (MAM) and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Sacramento City College joins us to discuss the history of the indigenous Maya people and how he is working to support efforts around the world to preserve the learning, reading and writing of the Classic Maya hieroglyphic script.