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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.
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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