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DATA NOTES CPS Department of Arts Education Ingenuity provides all data-reviewed CSC categories to the CPS Department of Arts Education. The Department reviews the survey responses for each school and flags concerns. Ingenuity and the Department then follow up with individual schools, as appropriate, to confirm or correct any survey responses. Staffing Files Ingenuity continued to refine the process for reviewing and cross-referencing staffing data this year. First, Ingenuity obtained from CPS two Budget and Talent files: one from the 20th day of enrollment and another from June 9 of the same school year. Ingenuity then matched the CPS and CSC staffing data sets. For the vast majority of entries, the data aligned across the three sources. If CPS identified an arts instructor who did not appear in the CSC data set, Ingenuity included that teacher. Arts instructors identified only in the CSC data set, but not on file with CPS, were researched further and included if it could be determined that they met the criteria. 75 CPS Principals The CPS Department of Arts Education and Ingenuity contact school principals for further clarification on any unresolved issues, correcting staffing numbers as appropriate. School/Partner Cross-Check All school partnerships reported by community arts partners are cross-referenced with data reported by the schools for discrepancies. The artlook ® Partners and artlook ® Schools data systems provide a transparent view of partnerships to both parties—organizations can see the partnerships reported by any given school and vice versa—and both are encouraged to confirm that the data entered are correct. Public Review artlook ® Map is populated by the data entered by both partners and schools as mentioned above. This website provides another opportunity for review by schools and partners, as well as the opportunity for public scrutiny. Ingenuity also checked the three data sets described above against the Illinois State Board of Education’s (ISBE) Educator Licensure Information System (ELIS). This made it possible to research the certifications and credentials of arts instructors in CPS, and to confirm the specific arts disciplines these instructors were credentialed to teach. Note that ISBE does not offer certifications for Media Arts and Literary Arts, so teachers listed in these disciplines were not required to be certified in order to be included in a school’s FTE count. PROGRESS REPORT | 2016–17