These funds will now be available annually. Project ARTS funds are not meant to supplant existing resources but rather to supplement and extend them.
All schools are also now eligible to participate in Materials for the Arts.
Now in its second year, Project ARTS is flourishing in schools across New York City. Funding has been allocated to each District and Superintendency based on a per capita formula. Every Community School District and High School Superintendency as well as the Chancellor s District and District 75 Citywide Special Education has assigned a Project ARTS liaison to support and develop arts education locally. Schools are using their funds to pay for teachers, arts and cultural services, equipment such as musical instruments, curriculum resources and professional development. Further, every school is encouraged to work with the surrounding community to enhance their ability to provide arts education and all schools and districts are working to develop the arts in ways that will permanently institutionalize them in the school s curriculum.