- 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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