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Council Member Rivera outlines the Create NYC cultural plan's focus on arts education
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Council Member Rivera discusses the Create NYC cultural plan, a comprehensive 10-year roadmap for arts and culture in the city, with a particular focus on its strategies for addressing arts education in public schools.
- Create NYC was developed with input from over 88,000 stakeholders
- The plan identifies several strategies to support arts education across K-12 grades
- Strategies include coordinating efforts across agencies, facilitating partnerships between cultural organizations and schools, and supporting arts integration into other subjects
Carlina Rivera
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With Create NYC adopted in 2017, we now have a ten year comprehensive cultural plan that over a 88,000 artists, cultural organization, agency representatives, experts, and residents of New York City helped to develop.
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The plan which was designed as a road map to guide the future of arts and culture in our city, spotlights this important issue we're here to talk about today.
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To address the issue of arts education, Create NYC identified several strategies.
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Support arts instruction across grades k through 12, coordinate efforts across agencies to provide quality arts and culture education during school and in after school hours, broker introductions between cultural organizations in DOE public schools and district superintendents to make possible more frequent school field trip and assemblies, clearly define and provide models for quality arts integration into other subjects for DOE leaders, educators, and arts and or museum educators, and partner with the city's cultural organizations to support their work in training teachers and administrators and in educating students.
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We can agree that those are all well worth doing, and it is profoundly important that Create NYC, the city's cultural plan, so much to say about educating our children's public school our city's public school students in the arts.
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Clearly, this is a job for the arts and cultural community as well as the public schools, and that is why the Committee on Cultural Affairs is cosponsoring this hearing.
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We believe we have an important seat at the table and that a 88,000 New Yorkers who participated in putting together Create NYC put us here.
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Jenny Fox
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look forward
Carlina Rivera
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to hearing from DCLA about its CDF grant making in the latest round of funding.