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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. 79 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