Working with the New York State Education Department (NYSED), the arts and cultural community, and the higher-education community, along with school leaders and parents, the NYCDOE is fully committed to supporting quality arts education, even in the face of the most severe fiscal crisis in 40 years, and will continue to:
- ensure student achievement in the arts;
- support school leaders to plan and provide comprehensive, sequential Blueprint-based instruction for all students;
- build capacity of teachers to deliver quality teaching and learning in the arts; and
- support all schools to meet ArtsCount/NYSED requirements.
- Successful Strategy: 497 cultural arts organizations partnered with responding schools in the 2011-2012 school year to provide arts education instruction. This was up from 378 the prior year.
- Observation: 91% of responding elementary schools provided at least two arts disciplines to any grade in the 2011-2012 school year. Among middle schools, the number drops to 79%, and among high schools it was 72%.
- Observation: 77% of schools reported having at least one full-time certified school-based arts teacher.
- Observation: 75% of schools reported having at least one appropriately equipped classroom or school facility for visual arts instruction. 63% have a music facility and 28% have a dance facility.
- Challenge: The percent of responding schools with students participating in performances or exhibitions decreased in the 2011-2012 school for dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
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