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GLOSSARY
Resources: An external provider supplies
physical resources to supplement a school’s arts
education programming (e.g. arts supplies or
instruments). Does not include grants or granting
agencies as partners.
Rubric: A performance-scoring scale that lists
multiple criteria for performance and provides
values for performance levels, such as numbers
or a range of descriptors from excellent to poor.
Selective Enrollment: Chicago public elementary
and high schools that require testing as part of the
admissions process.
Service Leadership Academies: These unique
four-year high schools prepare students for
college and career success by providing leadership
opportunities and co-curricular activities in a
nurturing, safe, and healthy environment in which
students can realize their full potential. Students
at these schools wear uniforms and operate in a
structured environment, but these schools are not
intended to prepare students for the military.
Sequential (in the context of arts education):
Occurring year to year from grades K–12.
STEM Program: A program that focuses on science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Student-Based Budgeting: The practice of assigning
dollars to schools based on a per-student formula.
This is a shift from traditional budgeting, which
assigns dollars to schools in the form of numbers
of instructor positions on the basis of student
enrollment. Under student-based budgeting, schools
have more flexibility to determine how they spend
their money and bear the direct cost of paying for
instructors.
Supplemental General State Aid: Illinois state
education funds targeted to support low-income
students. In Chicago, schools budget these funds
at their own discretion.
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Tax Increment Financing (TIF): A special tool
that a municipality can use to generate money for
economic development in a specific geographic
area. To determine whether an area is eligible, the
city hires a consultant to conduct an eligibility
study of the proposed TIF. If the area meets the
state standards, the consultant conducts a study of
the area and writes an overview of the development
priorities for the area and how TIF dollars will be
spent during the TIF’s 23-year lifespan. TIFs allow
a city to reinvest all new property tax dollars in
the neighborhood from which they came for a
23-year period. The “new” revenues arise if new
development takes place in the TIF district, or if
the value of existing properties rises, resulting in
higher tax bills. These funds can be spent on public
works projects or given as subsidies to encourage
private development.
Theatre: A student’s theatre education
experience may include, but is not limited
to, acting, theatre, film acting and filmmaking,
improvisation, mime, puppetry, performed
poetry/spoken word, musical theatre, playwriting,
technical theatre/stagecraft, theatre production,
Shakespearean literature and performance,
and International Baccalaureate (IB) theatre.
Title I Funds: Federal monies given to school
districts to provide extra support for low-income
children. Federal law requires districts to
prioritize the funds for their highest-poverty
schools. In Chicago, schools budget these funds
at their own discretion.
Visual Arts: A student’s visual arts education
experience may include, but is not limited to,
drawing, painting, ceramic arts/pottery, sculpture,
2D design, 3D design, photography, printmaking,
graphic arts, media arts (film, video, TV, animation,
digital), textiles, jewelry, glass arts, Advanced
Placement Studio (AP) courses, and International
Baccalaureate (IB) visual arts.
PROGRESS REPORT | 2016–17