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THE ARTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Arts Discipline
Staffing
In 2016–17, as in previous years, the largest portion of arts instructors in
the district identified 18 visual arts as their primary discipline (44 percent),
followed by music (34 percent), theatre (eight percent), media arts (five
percent), and dance (four percent). For the first year, teachers were able
to identify literary arts as their primary discipline. 19
In the 2015–16 report, Ingenuity noted a nearly 22-percent drop in
instructors identifying dance as their primary discipline from 2014–15.
In 2016–17, there were 62 teachers reporting dance, up from 51 in the
previous year, yet still slightly below the 65 that reported dance in 2014–15.
One notable factor contributing to the low number of teachers reporting
dance as their primary discipline is that only one university in Illinois 20
offers a Dance Teacher Education licensure program. This makes it more
difficult for potential teachers to fulfill the necessary course requirements
to obtain an Illinois State Board of Education endorsement in dance,
which in turn makes it more difficult for school leaders to find qualified
instructors to teach dance in their schools.
5%
4% 3%
8%
VISUAL ARTS AND
MUSIC INSTRUCTORS
MAKE UP THE HIGHEST
PERCENTAGE OF IDENTIFIED
ARTS INSTRUCTORS 21
44%
34%
VISUAL ARTS
632.4 FTEs
MUSIC
489.7 FTEs
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THEATRE
116.7 FTEs
MEDIA ARTS
78.2 FTEs
DANCE
62 FTEs
LITERARY ARTS
49.5 FTEs
This identification is made by the Arts Liaison or the CPS Office of Accountability.
While schools reported media arts and literary arts instructors, there are currently no ISBE endorsements for either media arts or literary arts.
Illinois State University.
These data come from the survey as well as CPS staffing files and, therefore, represent both reporting and non-reporting schools. The number of FTEs will
not add up to the total FTE count for any given school year because information on primary discipline was not available for all reported teachers.