The Fund for Public Schools is deeply committed to supporting the New York City Department of Education in providing New York City public school communities – students, teachers, school leaders and parents – with information and resources that will enable every student to achieve a comprehensive arts education. Fulfillment of this mission will lead students to discover the lifelong enjoyment and wonder inherent in the arts, and will connect them to arts institutions and organizations that exhibit and perform the arts.   

The new Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts provides a sequential curriculum in the visual arts, music, dance, and theater.  The Blueprint represents the first time that arts education has been based on common city-wide standards.  It is already being recognized as a national model.

 

Private sector support is helping to integrate the implementation of the Blueprint in schools across the city in these key areas: 

 

Arts SPACE (Supporting Performing Arts and Creative Education): To help schools enhance their performance facilities, The Fund for Public Schools awards privately-funded Arts SPACE grants to individual schools.  Schools that demonstrate a commitment to arts education have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to $20,000, with requests ranging from new stage curtains to lighting equipment and choir risers for auditoriums.

 

Professional Development:  Donations from the private sector have supported resources that enable teachers to apply lessons learned from professional development trainings directly to their classrooms.

 

Without private sector support, these important arts education programs would not be possible.

 

For more information about the arts initiative and Arts SPACE, please contact fundforpublicschools@schools.nyc.gov or call 212-374-2874.