{"id":1324,"date":"2026-04-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:37:25","slug":"school-arts-instruction-needs-help-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/04\/17\/school-arts-instruction-needs-help-now\/","title":{"rendered":"School arts instruction needs help now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gale A. Brewer<\/p>\n<p>For someone who spends as much time as I do inside New York\u2019s public schools, there may be nothing more uplifting than walking into a children\u2019s arts class. There\u2019s an energy in those rooms \u2014 messy, focused, and alive \u2014 as students mix paint colors, shape clay, and debate whether a line should be thicker or thinner. It&#8217;s a constant reminder that arts education is essential for our city&#8217;s children. LINK: <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2026\/04\/School-arts-instruction-needs-help-now-Gale-Brewer-OpEd.pdf\">NY Daily News OpEd: Gale A. Brewer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gale A. Brewer<\/p>\n<p>For someone who spends as much time as I do inside New York\u2019s public schools, there may be nothing more uplifting than walking into a children\u2019s arts class. There\u2019s an energy in those rooms \u2014 messy, focused, and alive \u2014 as students mix paint colors, shape clay, and debate whether a line should be thicker or thinner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/04\/17\/school-arts-instruction-needs-help-now\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}