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THE ARTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Certified arts instructors are essential to schools providing a strong arts
education, and make it possible for a school to provide its students with
quality arts opportunities. 11 They not only provide arts instruction, but also
advocate for the arts within their schools, organize parent s and community
arts partners around arts opportunities outside the regular curriculum, and
often help instructors in other subject areas enhance their teaching through
arts integration. In many cases, arts activities are also a primary method for
bringing the entire school together around a single activity. The number of
arts full-time equivalents (FTEs) recorded in the district has increased in
every year since the CSC began. In 2016–17, the Creative Schools Survey
recorded 1,491.5 FTEs, up from 1,402 in 2015–16, a six-percent increase. 12
THE NUMBER OF KNOWN FTE ARTS INSTRUCTORS IN THE DISTRICT
HAS INCREASED FROM YEAR TO YEAR
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1,163.4
2012–13
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1,288
2013–14
1,337
2014–15
1,402 1,491.5
2015–16
2016–17
SCHOOL YEAR
The increase this year in overall staffing is in part a consequence of the
increase in survey participation. While Ingenuity receives CPS staffing files
for all district-run schools, regardless of whether they complete a survey,
data from charter schools is available only from those that complete a
Creative Schools Survey. The jump in the number of charter schools that
provided data this year therefore played an important role in the growth
seen in this year’s staffing numbers. As has been the case in each year the
Creative Schools Survey was conducted, the arts instructors included in
these numbers include certified arts instructors in district-run schools and
teachers identified as arts instructors in charter schools.
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See Data Notes section of the Appendix for more details on the staffing data sets and process that were used to identify arts FTEs.
Charter school teachers are not required by CPS to hold a state certification. In this section, the term “certified” refers either to teachers in district-run
schools that hold such a state-level credential or to any individual designated as a teacher by a charter school.
This total is based on staffing data from all schools, including some district-run schools that did not respond to the Creative Schools Survey, but whose
staffing data are available from CPS administrative sources.
Due to a lower response rate on the Creative Schools survey in its first year, staffing totals for 2012–13 are based only on data from CPS Office of
Accountability arts staffing files as of June 15, 2013.
See glossary.