Hyperallergic – Carey Dunne
“Art classes are often the first to be sacrificed from school curriculums when budgets get cut — which makes the 2014–15 New York City Department of Education “Annual Arts in Schools Report” a welcome bit of good news for young artists in the five boroughs. According to the report, arts education in New York City public schools expanded in 2015…“In today’s city, with issues of inequality all around us, the question of providing equal opportunity for a quality arts education transcends education. It is an issue of justice,” the report’s conclusion reads. “The arts, and the qualities and skills the arts build, offer young people a path to literacy, the ability to qualify for good jobs in the new economy, a sense of empathy for other views and other people, and the hope of becoming involved and productive citizens. An education without the arts is an education that handicaps rather than enables.””(more)