Strategies to Enhance Arts Education for All City Students Announced

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein recently unveiled ArtsCount, a new set of strategies to enhance arts education in New York City schools through accountability and quality improvement initiatives. ArtsCount builds upon the Blueprint for the Arts, implemented in 2004 and 2005, which established common benchmarks and curriculum goals for each arts discipline. ArtsCount incorporates arts metrics into the Administration's measurement of school performance, establishing first-ever accountability for arts programming and signaling the importance of art to a student's overall education.

The Mayor and Chancellor were joined at Stuyvesant High School's Summer Arts Institute by First Deputy Mayor Parti Harris; Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development Dennis Walcott; Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin; Executive Director of the Children's Museum of Manhattan Andrew Ackerman; Principal Barbara Sanders of I.S. 383 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and members of the newly-formed Arts Education Task Force. The Mayor and Chancellor also announced the creation of the Arts Education Task Force, which includes leaders from the City's cultural community, and whose purpose is to help guide the City as it works to improve arts education for all students.

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Strategies to Enhance Arts Education for All City Students Announced

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein recently unveiled ArtsCount, a new set of strategies to enhance arts education in New York City schools through accountability and quality improvement initiatives. ArtsCount builds upon the Blueprint fo...

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