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ArtsForward Closing the gaps in arts education in Manhattan public schools
Gale A. Brewer MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT
June 2014
SUMMARY New York State’s requirement that arts instruction be mandatory for every public school student is a powerful endorsement of the arts as an essential component of K-12 education.1 The only available tracking tool for New York City to monitor its schools’ compliance with state requirements, however—the New York City Department of Education’s Annual Arts Education Survey2—contains numerous inaccuracies that underscore its unreliability as an assessment tool. ArtsForward is the result of a Manhattan Borough President’s Office (MBPO) analysis of DOE Survey data applying to Manhattan schools. Data from the 2012–2013 Survey, the most recent available, indicate that arts education across New York City is beset by significant compliance issues—a finding that the New York City Comptroller’s Office highlighted in a recent report.3 The MBPO probed further into Survey results to identify which Manhattan schools need help in delivering arts education to meet state requirements.
“We’re going to
say to people, the arts are important and there is a compliance issue. For a long time, I think it wasn’t on people’s radars, but it’s certainly on mine and just stay tuned.” —Carmen Fariña, NYC Schools Chancellor, April 26, 2014
According our research, 83 responding Manhattan schools reported having no full-time certified arts teacher on staff , 43 Manhattan schools reported having no partnerships with external cultural organizations, and 11 schools lack both a certified teacher and an arts partner. ArtsForward identifies the limitations of the DOE’s Survey in the context of teacher, administrator, and cultural organization partner feedback and makes recommendations that we believe will improve methods for assessing school compliance and ensure that schools have equal access to the resources needed to enhance arts education for all, including:
• Revamp the Survey itself • Improve accountability and evaluation • Reform arts education funding • Implement collaborative arts programming • Provide new opportunities for teacher certification in the arts • Expand arts education outreach • Target programs that focus on middle schools
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INTRODUCTION
ANHATTAN’S prominence as a global center of music, dance, theater, and the visual arts means that arts education across New York City is under constant scrutiny. The fact that hundreds of cultural organizations throughout the city offer a wide range of student programming both enriches and complicates the arts education landscape.
Although the city has immense cultural capital to offer its schoolchildren, the degree to which public schools draw from this rich reserve for arts education programming varies considerably. Schools also differ in their curricular approaches to the arts: some strive to integrate the arts with other subject areas so as to add richness to those subjects while providing context for the arts; others celebrate the intrinsic value of the arts as standalone subjects. Underlying these school-to-school variations in arts education is New York State Education Department (NYSED) policy mandating core requirements for arts instruction. Every city school must meet an arts programming baseline in the four primary disciplines: visual arts, music, theater, and dance. Although NYSED provides guidelines for aligning arts curricula to the standards, it has no centralized mechanism for evaluating whether children are meeting them. The city’s similar lack of such a tool has rendered the NYC Department of Education’s Annual Arts Education Survey its only accountability instrument for the arts. Section I of this report describes the methods used by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office (MBPO) to identify target schools—a deductive process using only Annual Arts Education Survey
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