Schools Are Divesting From Arts Education as COVID-Era Federal Funds Evaporate
When Oren Alperin was ready to apply to high school, they knew they wanted to study theater. Now a junior at the competitive Brooklyn High School of the Arts, their coursework has included acting, playwriting and world theater classes on top of more traditional academic subjects. Alperin loves the school and says that the benefits extend from the personal to the scholastic. “I’ve gotten so much...