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DOE Executive Director explains support for schools in arts partnerships and funding
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Paul Thompson, Executive Director of the NYC Public School Arts Office, explains how the DOE supports schools in establishing and maintaining arts partnerships. He emphasizes the role of principals in budget allocation and the importance of aligning cultural partnerships with school missions.
- Schools can use their budgets to bring in cultural partners aligned with their mission
- The arts office works with principals to recommend cultural partners and support their instructional vision
- DOE provides funding through various arts grants, supporting almost 300 schools
- The $4 million council support was instrumental in expanding resources for schools without other grant funding
- Cultural partners are a primary strategy for enhancing arts education in schools
Paul Thompson
1:12:27
So thank you for that question.
1:12:29
So again, to just get into the ecosystem, schools are free to use their budgets to bring in cultural partners that align with their school mission and the core values that they're trying to move forward.
1:12:46
And so one of the things that we do as an arts office again, you're gonna get sick of me saying this, but this is why we work with principals.
1:12:56
Because principals are the people who control the budgets in schools and align the instructional vision.
1:13:03
And so we support just as a general, always trying to recommend different cultural partners to help supplement the work that principals are doing in their building and to help move their mission.
1:13:16
And so that's just sort of a blanket way in which we try to support schools.
1:13:21
Another way that we do directly is through the funding of our arts grants.
1:13:26
So, you know, we we support through multilingual learners and students with disabilities and also the the yes.
1:13:41
Supports for arts instruction grant.
1:13:44
We're we're supporting almost 300 schools in helping to provide them with the resources, and the majority of those schools are bringing in these cultural partners.
1:13:54
And so there's a real marriage in how the arts office works with the arts and cultural community to make this happen.
1:14:00
I have to also just say again, the support that the council provided with the $4,000,000 was instrumental in helping us really think about and and export more resource for schools that didn't get the funding from our other grants programs and was spread throughout the city.
1:14:24
And, again, the majority of those grants are used to bring in cultural partners into their building.
1:14:30
That's the main strategy that we use.