The 2025 Proposition 28 Arts and Music in Schools (AMS) School Site Expenditure Plan for 2026‑27 shows ISM receiving 55000 in Prop 28 funding and planning to spend it primarily on equipment, supplies, and materials, with a small staffing portion. , microphones) for enhanced performances across K‑8, additional display boards for student art presentations, and design teacher training to deepen STEAM and technical arts. The plan references stakeholder input—parents, staff, and students requesting better performance audio, more STEAM/technical arts, and a potential future laser cutter for Design classes.Prop 28 funds must supplement, not supplant, existing arts, music, and technology programs, and no more than 1% can be used for admin costs. This gives vendors in performance audio systems, stage technology, visual display systems, STEAM/CTE equipment (including potential laser cutters and related CAM tools), and arts-focused PD a funded pathway into ISM’s program. A next conversation should explore specific equipment specs, training needs for performing arts and design teachers, and how to phase in larger items like a laser cutter in subsequent years.

Plan summary shows about 11760 of Prop 28 going to named equipment and training items; remaining funds likely support additional eligible arts/tech activities not fully shown in the excerpt.