8/17/10 - Center for Arts Education finds art supply spending down in City schools
The New York Observer's Cora Lewis reports on the Center for Arts Education's findings that spending on arts supplies in public schools is down $7.2 million. The Trust helped start the Center for Arts Education in 1996.
Teaching the Arts on the Cheap | Cora Lewis |
New York ObserverAugust 17, 2010
New York City public school principals have hired 139 new arts and music teachers over the past three years. Good news for students returning to school Sept. 8, right?
In fact, according to the Center for Arts Education, a watchdog group, while the hiring of arts teachers has indeed inched up, spending on arts supplies, such as musical instruments, theater costumes, crayons and construction paper, decreased by 68 percent, or $7.2 million, since the start of the 2006-2007 school year. Spending on partnerships with cultural institutions has fallen by 31 percent. So while the number of arts teachers is up, the means for doing their job have been slashed.
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