By Denisa R. Superville on July 1, 2014 4:08 PM
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced Tuesday a $23 million initiative to expand arts education in city schools and fund training for arts teachers in the upcoming school year.
The announcement was made at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, with City Comptroller Scott Stringer, whose office released a report in April, "State of the Arts," which, as the name suggests, looked at arts programs in city schools and found that arts education was seriously "underfunded" and that the resources were "inequitably" distributed across the city.