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Thursday, July 21, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Arts Advisory Committee Calls for More Testing of Arts

NYC Public School Parents: Arts Advisory Committee Calls for More Testing of Arts

Arts Advisory Committee Calls for More Testing of Arts

Last night's Panel for Educational Policy meeting featured a report from the PEP Arts Advisory Committee. The membership of this committee is chosen by the PEP, which means by the Bloomberg administration as the mayoral appointees voted in a bloc for their preferred candidates.

The report was much about how to do more with less given the current funding environment. There was some token acknowledgment of the need to do more with those schools who fare the worst in providing arts education;