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The Center for Arts Education (CAE) is a nonprofit organization that is committed to stimulating and sustaining quality arts education as an essential part of every child’s education in the New York City
public schools. Since 1996, CAE has invested nearly $40 million to support schools and cultural organizations in their efforts to restore arts education programs. CAE has served over 500 schools, 490,000 students, 21,000 teachers and 75,000 parents, while supporting more than 400 cultural organizations in partnership with New York City public schools.
education without opportunities to receive instruction in arts education, aside from schools with private funding.
In the early 1990s, the New York City Board of Education (NYCDOE), New York City’s cultural institutions, and private-sector foundations grew increasingly, alarmed by the diminished state of arts education in New York City schools. By 1991, two-thirds of New York City schools still had no licensed arts or music teachers.
In 1993, Ambassador Walter Annenberg
announced the single largest gift ever made to American public education: The Annenberg Challenge, a half-billion dollar, five-year challenge grant designed to support promising efforts at school reform
throughout the country. In a collaboration, New York City’s Board of Education and Department of Cultural Affairs envisioned a five-year plan, The Annenberg Arts and Education Initiative, to initiate arts education reform. This plan, created under the guidance of consulting firm Artsvision, proposed a sustainable model for institutionalizing arts education in New York City public schools.
In March 1996, The Annenberg Foundation approved the proposal and The Center for Arts Education was created to administer the initiative, serve as a liaison
and oversee the distribution of funding to New York City’s schools. The Annenberg plan established The Center for Arts Education as an independent agency that was administratively distinct from the New York City Board of Education. The initiative began with a two-to-one $12 million Challenge Grant from the Annenberg Foundation, to be matched by a $12 million investment each from the public and private sectors, for a total $36 million.
In 2001 The Annenberg Foundation provided another $12 million to CAE to continue revitalizing arts education. This challenge grant was to be matched by an additional $12 million that would be used to fund additional rounds of Partnership grants. CAE also used this second challenge grant to fund new programs that would permit parents to take part in arts education, expose teenagers to arts careers, and enable existing Partnership schools to share their successes with other schools.
groups, theater companies, community-based organizations and other groups to institutionalize school-wide arts programs and promote school reform. In 1997, 81 of New York City’s public schools were awarded the first of these three-year "Partnership Grants" to form collaborations with cultural and community-based organizations, creating an arts curricula tailored to meet the individual needs of each school. By supporting the use of the New York City’s cultural resources, CAE provided a link that made institutions, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
to the Pregones Theater Company in the South Bronx
, an integral part of the public school system.
Over one-third of the New York City’s public schools applied for the $75,000 partnership grants through CAE, and while 81 schools did receive a grant, hundreds did not receive funding. In response, the New York City Board of Education, with support from former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, created Project ARTS, the first system-wide per capita funds for the arts since the mid-seventies. Project ARTS, used for the training and hiring of arts teachers as well as arts supplies, would also lay the groundwork for the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, the first citywide arts curriculum
since the period of cutbacks.
opportunities for the education industry, and career development training for high school students. CAE’s programs include:
Parents As Arts Partners (PAAP) Grant: a grant offered by CAE to support arts activities for parents and their children. The PAAP grant, which funds 150 schools throughout New York City’s five boroughs, engages families with hands-on interactive arts experiences, including workshops with teaching artists and visits to cultural organizations.
Career Development Program (CDP): provides New York City public high school students with school-to-career
preparation and work experience in the creative industries
. Through CDP students gain access to the creative industries with career training that results in an internship in the arts. In 2007 CAE created a website that expands the reach of CDP beyond New York City to engage students, teachers and mentors in the many career opportunities available in the creative industries. CAE also offers careers in the Arts Summer Institute (CITASI) to offer students, teachers, counselors, administrators and parents a deeper awareness of the many career opportunities available in the creative industries.
School Arts Support Initiative (SASI): launched in Spring 2008 in partnership with The New York Times Company Foundation and the New York City Department of Education to provide funding and additional in-kind professional support to three New York City public schools with little or no arts education. SASI grants are being used to help MS 267: Math, Science and Technology Institute in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, JS 231: Magnetech/Tri-Community Jr. High School in southeastern Queens
and MS 223: The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology in the South Bronx
to assess their arts education needs, engage appropriate providers of arts education and then implement arts education curricula for their students.
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"A Decade of Progress" is a comprehensive 88 page report published by CAE in September 2007. "A Decade of Progress" chronicles the history and movement to restore arts education in New York City public schools. The publication includes a companion DVD "A Decade of Progress" DVD Nominated for ARTS PROGRAMING AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE by Ovation TV, December 13 2007 narrated by Anna Deavere Smith
and provides exclusive segments with Mayor Michael Bloomberg
, School’s Chancellor Joel Klein
, and United Federation of Teachers
President Randi Weingarten
about the importance of and need for arts education in schools and the community.
Recognizing Excellence in the Arts
In September 2007, CAE launched “ArtSmart New York" an advocacy campaign intended to raise awareness about arts education. CAE awarded New York City Council Members Robert Jackson (NYC)
and Dominic Recchia the first “ArtSmart” award for their continued support of arts education in New York City public schools.
to include representatives from the private and public sector
, including the schools’ Chancellor Rudy Crew
, the former Mayor of the City of New York Rudolph Giuliani, and the Commissioner of the City of New York Cultural Affairs. Of the current New York City administration, Chancellor Joel Klein
, the Mayor of the city of New York Michael Bloomberg
and Commissioner Kate D. Levin represent CAE’s public sector leadership in their Board of Directors. Richard Kessler, Former Executive Director of CAE, was also one of the principal authors of the plan that led to the creation of the CAE in 1996 when he was serving as an arts education consultant for Artsvision.
CAE's Board of Directors also features leading members of New York City's civic, cultural and business communities, including:
Jody Gottfried Arnhold, Chairman, Board of Directors of Ballet Hispanico
Richard A. Barasch, Chairman and CEO of Universal American Financial Corporation
Jill Braufman, Board Chair, The Center for Arts Education
Schuyler Chapin
, Former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, In Memoriam.
Kitty Carlisle-Hart, In Memoriam
Judith K. Dimon, Chairman of the Education Advisory Board at Children's Aid Society
Peter Duchin
, President of Peter Duchin Orchestras Inc.
John J. Hannan, Apollo Management
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Laurie M. Tisch, Chair Emeritus
Bruce Silverstein, Owner Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2007 Bronze Telly Award for the documentary video A Decade of Progress: 1996-2006
2002 NYC Governor’s Arts Award
2001 The Arts and Business Council
Visionary Award presented to CAE Board Chair Laurie Tisch
2001 New York State Assembly Citation
2000 The Arts and Business Council
Encore Award presented to former Executive Director Hollis Headrick
2000 Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declares Thursday, March 15, 2001 as “The Center for Arts Education Day”
New York City
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public schools. Since 1996, CAE has invested nearly $40 million to support schools and cultural organizations in their efforts to restore arts education programs. CAE has served over 500 schools, 490,000 students, 21,000 teachers and 75,000 parents, while supporting more than 400 cultural organizations in partnership with New York City public schools.
History
The Center for Arts Education was founded in 1996 to restore and sustain arts education in New York City’s public schools after two decades of system-wide cutbacks in funding for classroom arts programs. The fiscal budget crisis of the 1970s immediately challenged the City’s commitment to arts education. Budget cuts resulted in teacher layoffs and the gradual abandonment of the arts as an essential element of students’ academic development. For the next twenty years, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers experienced a K-12K-12
K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...
education without opportunities to receive instruction in arts education, aside from schools with private funding.
In the early 1990s, the New York City Board of Education (NYCDOE), New York City’s cultural institutions, and private-sector foundations grew increasingly, alarmed by the diminished state of arts education in New York City schools. By 1991, two-thirds of New York City schools still had no licensed arts or music teachers.
In 1993, Ambassador Walter Annenberg
Walter Annenberg
Walter Hubert Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.-Early life:Walter Annenberg was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1908. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published The Daily Racing Form and purchased The Philadelphia...
announced the single largest gift ever made to American public education: The Annenberg Challenge, a half-billion dollar, five-year challenge grant designed to support promising efforts at school reform
Reform
Reform means to put or change into an improved form or condition; to amend or improve by change of color or removal of faults or abuses, beneficial change, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state, to repair, restore or to correct....
throughout the country. In a collaboration, New York City’s Board of Education and Department of Cultural Affairs envisioned a five-year plan, The Annenberg Arts and Education Initiative, to initiate arts education reform. This plan, created under the guidance of consulting firm Artsvision, proposed a sustainable model for institutionalizing arts education in New York City public schools.
In March 1996, The Annenberg Foundation approved the proposal and The Center for Arts Education was created to administer the initiative, serve as a liaison
Liaison
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and oversee the distribution of funding to New York City’s schools. The Annenberg plan established The Center for Arts Education as an independent agency that was administratively distinct from the New York City Board of Education. The initiative began with a two-to-one $12 million Challenge Grant from the Annenberg Foundation, to be matched by a $12 million investment each from the public and private sectors, for a total $36 million.
In 2001 The Annenberg Foundation provided another $12 million to CAE to continue revitalizing arts education. This challenge grant was to be matched by an additional $12 million that would be used to fund additional rounds of Partnership grants. CAE also used this second challenge grant to fund new programs that would permit parents to take part in arts education, expose teenagers to arts careers, and enable existing Partnership schools to share their successes with other schools.
CAE and Public School Reform
The cornerstone of the Annenberg Challenge effort was the creation of "arts partnerships" in which schools, working with orchestras, museums, danceDance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
groups, theater companies, community-based organizations and other groups to institutionalize school-wide arts programs and promote school reform. In 1997, 81 of New York City’s public schools were awarded the first of these three-year "Partnership Grants" to form collaborations with cultural and community-based organizations, creating an arts curricula tailored to meet the individual needs of each school. By supporting the use of the New York City’s cultural resources, CAE provided a link that made institutions, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
to the Pregones Theater Company in the South Bronx
South Bronx
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The neighborhoods of Tremont, University Heights, Highbridge, Morrisania, Soundview, Hunts Point, and Castle Hill are sometimes considered part of the South Bronx....
, an integral part of the public school system.
Over one-third of the New York City’s public schools applied for the $75,000 partnership grants through CAE, and while 81 schools did receive a grant, hundreds did not receive funding. In response, the New York City Board of Education, with support from former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, created Project ARTS, the first system-wide per capita funds for the arts since the mid-seventies. Project ARTS, used for the training and hiring of arts teachers as well as arts supplies, would also lay the groundwork for the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, the first citywide arts curriculum
Curriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
since the period of cutbacks.
Programs
The Center for Arts Education offers family engagement programs, professional developmentProfessional development
Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning...
opportunities for the education industry, and career development training for high school students. CAE’s programs include:
Parents As Arts Partners (PAAP) Grant: a grant offered by CAE to support arts activities for parents and their children. The PAAP grant, which funds 150 schools throughout New York City’s five boroughs, engages families with hands-on interactive arts experiences, including workshops with teaching artists and visits to cultural organizations.
Career Development Program (CDP): provides New York City public high school students with school-to-career
Career
Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....
preparation and work experience in the creative industries
Creative industries
The creative industries refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information...
. Through CDP students gain access to the creative industries with career training that results in an internship in the arts. In 2007 CAE created a website that expands the reach of CDP beyond New York City to engage students, teachers and mentors in the many career opportunities available in the creative industries. CAE also offers careers in the Arts Summer Institute (CITASI) to offer students, teachers, counselors, administrators and parents a deeper awareness of the many career opportunities available in the creative industries.
School Arts Support Initiative (SASI): launched in Spring 2008 in partnership with The New York Times Company Foundation and the New York City Department of Education to provide funding and additional in-kind professional support to three New York City public schools with little or no arts education. SASI grants are being used to help MS 267: Math, Science and Technology Institute in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, JS 231: Magnetech/Tri-Community Jr. High School in southeastern Queens
Queens
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
and MS 223: The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology in the South Bronx
South Bronx
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The neighborhoods of Tremont, University Heights, Highbridge, Morrisania, Soundview, Hunts Point, and Castle Hill are sometimes considered part of the South Bronx....
to assess their arts education needs, engage appropriate providers of arts education and then implement arts education curricula for their students.
Publications
“My Child, the Arts and Learning: A Guide for Parents, PreK-Second Grade” was published in August 2007 in nine different languages. CAE created the guide to help parents understand the benefits of and need for arts education. The guide provides parents with resources including, New York City and New York State arts requirements, which states every public school child is legally entitled to receive arts education in school. “My Child, the Arts and Learning: A Guide for Parents, PreK-2nd Grade” was widely distributed throughout public schools in New York City and through the New York Public LibraryNew York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
.
"A Decade of Progress" is a comprehensive 88 page report published by CAE in September 2007. "A Decade of Progress" chronicles the history and movement to restore arts education in New York City public schools. The publication includes a companion DVD "A Decade of Progress" DVD Nominated for ARTS PROGRAMING AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE by Ovation TV, December 13 2007 narrated by Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress.-Early life:...
and provides exclusive segments with Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
, School’s Chancellor Joel Klein
Joel Klein
Joel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...
, and United Federation of Teachers
United Federation of Teachers
The United Federation of Teachers is the labor union that represents most educators in New York City public schools. , there were about 118,000 in-service educators and 17,000 paraprofessionals in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members...
President Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
'Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers , a member of the AFL-CIO, and former president of the United Federation of Teachers. New York magazine called her one of the most influential people in education in...
about the importance of and need for arts education in schools and the community.
Recognizing Excellence in the Arts
In September 2007, CAE launched “ArtSmart New York" an advocacy campaign intended to raise awareness about arts education. CAE awarded New York City Council Members Robert Jackson (NYC)
Robert Jackson (NYC)
Robert Jackson is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 7th District in Manhattan. The district includes portions of the neighborhoods Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood. Jackson, first elected in 2001, is a Democrat. He will be term limited in 2013.Before being elected to...
and Dominic Recchia the first “ArtSmart” award for their continued support of arts education in New York City public schools.
CAE Leadership
CAE formed a Board of DirectorsBoard of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
to include representatives from the private and public sector
Public sector
The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range...
, including the schools’ Chancellor Rudy Crew
Rudy Crew
Rudolph F. "Rudy" Crew is professor of Clinical Education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. He is a former Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools...
, the former Mayor of the City of New York Rudolph Giuliani, and the Commissioner of the City of New York Cultural Affairs. Of the current New York City administration, Chancellor Joel Klein
Joel Klein
Joel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...
, the Mayor of the city of New York Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
and Commissioner Kate D. Levin represent CAE’s public sector leadership in their Board of Directors. Richard Kessler, Former Executive Director of CAE, was also one of the principal authors of the plan that led to the creation of the CAE in 1996 when he was serving as an arts education consultant for Artsvision.
CAE's Board of Directors also features leading members of New York City's civic, cultural and business communities, including:
Jody Gottfried Arnhold, Chairman, Board of Directors of Ballet Hispanico
Richard A. Barasch, Chairman and CEO of Universal American Financial Corporation
Jill Braufman, Board Chair, The Center for Arts Education
Schuyler Chapin
Schuyler Chapin
Schuyler Garrison Chapin was an Assistant General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City during the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...
, Former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, In Memoriam.
Kitty Carlisle-Hart, In Memoriam
Judith K. Dimon, Chairman of the Education Advisory Board at Children's Aid Society
Peter Duchin
Peter Duchin
-Life and career:Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. He was raised by close family friends, statesman W...
, President of Peter Duchin Orchestras Inc.
John J. Hannan, Apollo Management
Apollo Management
Apollo Global Management, LLC is a private equity investment firm, founded in 1990 by former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker Leon Black. The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions and purchases of distressed securities involving corporate restructuring, special situations and industry...
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Laurie M. Tisch, Chair Emeritus
Bruce Silverstein, Owner Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Bruce Silverstein Gallery was established in 2001. Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. The Gallery's main exhibition space is located at 535 West 24th Street with another location at 529 West 20th Street...
Awards
2010 Bronze Telly Award for the documentary video MS 223: The Power of Arts Education2007 Bronze Telly Award for the documentary video A Decade of Progress: 1996-2006
2002 NYC Governor’s Arts Award
2001 The Arts and Business Council
Arts & Business Council of New York
The Arts & Business Council of New York , also known as Arts & Business Council, Inc., is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop more creative partnerships between the arts and business communities in New York, enhancing the business skills of the arts sector and the creative...
Visionary Award presented to CAE Board Chair Laurie Tisch
2001 New York State Assembly Citation
2000 The Arts and Business Council
Arts & Business Council of New York
The Arts & Business Council of New York , also known as Arts & Business Council, Inc., is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop more creative partnerships between the arts and business communities in New York, enhancing the business skills of the arts sector and the creative...
Encore Award presented to former Executive Director Hollis Headrick
2000 Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declares Thursday, March 15, 2001 as “The Center for Arts Education Day”