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City schools get $4m arts programs boost

Foundation grant enhances initiative

By Colin A. Young

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 08, 2012

Boston Public Schools has received a $4 million grant to maintain and expand arts education in schools around the city. School officials said the grant, from the New York-based Wallace Foundation, would go greatly enhance an initiative launched three years by the school district, the city, and outside partners to provide quality education in the visual and performing arts to all students. Superintendent Carol R. Johnson and Mayor Thomas M. Menino were scheduled to announce the grant Wednesday at a Dorchester school.

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