Some lawmakers and advocates fear the arts are in jeopardy in public schools.
Mayor Eric Adams has asked the city's Department of Education to reduce its spending by 3%. Those reductions would cut into the city's arts and music programs, among other things
The chair of the City Council's Committee on Education, Brooklyn Councilmember Rita Joseph, and the CEO of the Education Through Music program, Janice Weinman, joined Rocco Vertuccio and Shannan Ferry Sunday morning on NY1 to talk more about this.