Creative Arts Charter School k-8

The mission of Creative Arts Charter School is to provide Kindergarten to 8th-grade students of San Francisco with an innovative, high-quality education that focuses on an arts-integrated, hands-on curriculum.

CACS was founded in 1994 by a small group of families and teachers who shared a vision of an arts-rich, hands-on curriculum ...based on the best educational research and progressive teaching practices. They had seen other schools' attempts to innovate falter when faced with bureaucratic obstacles and resistance to change. But they persevered in a national climate that alternately supported and...