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• About VAPA
Instructional Resources
Standards and Framework
Arts Announcements
Arts Organizations
Grants and Funding Sources
Academic Decathlon Concert
Grand Night for Music
Honor Music Festival
Kern County Fair Art
Nutcracker
Young People's Concerts

For information about specific events and services please select from the choices listed above.

For questions or comments please contact Ed Hughes, the Coordinator for Visual and Performing Arts, at edhughes@kern.org or (661) 636-4643.

Visual & Performing Arts
A Department of Curriculum Instruction & Accountability

About Visual and Performing Arts

Music, Dance, Theatre and Visual Arts and the Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office

About the The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office

The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office (KCSOS) provides services to the 47 school districts in Kern County. These services include the Visual and Performing Arts. For general information about schools in Kern County please refer to Pocket Facts.


The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office Mission Statement.

Directions to KCSOS

About the Coordinator

The coordinator for Visual and Performing Arts is Ed Hughes. He has a Masters Degree in Educational Administration, Masters Degree in Music Education, and a Bachelors Degree in Music. He has an Administrative Services Credential, a Standard Administration Credential and Standard Teaching Credential, Secondary. Ed Hughes coordinates various activities in Visual and Performing Arts including the It's a Grand Night for Music, Honor Music Festival, Kern County Fair Art and Young People's Concerts.

Ed Hughes served as state Chair for the California Alliance For Arts Education, State Board of Directors, 1994-1996. He also served on the National Governance Committee for the Kennedy Center Alliance For Arts Education in Washington DC 1996-1998. Additional service included the Instructional Materials Evaluation Panel, California State Department of Education, Textbook Adoption Committee, 1986 and 1989. In addition to Visual and Performing Arts, he also coordinates the Kern County Academic Decathlon, the Division Scholarship programs, Small School Districts Consortium, and Distinguished Schools.

edhughes@kern.org (661) 636-4643

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