MAYOR GIULIANI ADDRESSES THE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION BREAKFAST MEETING
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today addressed members of New York City's education, union, business and philanthropic communities during a breakfast meeting at the Regency Hotel on the importance of bringing arts education to New York City schools. The breakfast meeting was sponsored by the Center for Arts Education.
"The importance of the arts in our children's lives goes far beyond developing their appreciation of beauty," said Mayor Giuliani. "Learning about painting, sculpture, music, drama and dance broadens the horizons of our children by developing self discipline, enhancing creative thinking and increasing attention and concentration, all of which contribute to excellence in education. That's why my financial plan for the next four years includes $25 million for the restoration of a comprehensive arts education curriculum in our public schools.
"I commend the Center for Arts Education for accepting the challenge to organize hundreds of cultural and community-based organizations, foundations and corporations in New York City to assist the Board of Education in developing a support system that will nurture and sustain arts education in our public schools," the Mayor added.
The Center for Arts Education is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides leadership for the New York City Arts and Education Initiative, supported in part by a five-year grant from the Annenberg Foundation. This grant must be matched by a $24 million investment from public and private sources.
Some of the objectives of the Center for Arts Education are:
- Developing new classroom strategies by restructuring instructional time, involving parents, using new students' assessment methods, and creating new teaching positions.
- Supporting school-wide instructional objectives and reform plans that will be met through a comprehensive arts education that reaches all students in a school.
- Providing a means for arts organizations to engage in a dynamic process wherein arts education programs will be developed in partnerships with schools through curriculum, instruction and school-wide objectives.
- Using performance and content standards included in the New York City Curriculum Frameworks and/or the New York State Education Department Learning Standards.
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