State of the Arts in Chicago Public Schools: Progress Report 2014-2015
Chicago Public Schools are making progress toward goals set in 2012 to provide quality arts education in music, dance, theater, and the visual arts by credentialed instructors, non-arts instructors qualified to integrate the arts into other subjects, and community arts organizations, a report from Ingenuity finds. The report, State of the Arts in Chicago Public Schools: Progress Report 2014-2015 (88 pages, PDF), found that 58 percent of the 571 elementary schools included in the study provided two hours a week of arts instruction; 68 percent met the recommended ration of one arts teacher per 350 students, a 10 percentage point increase over the previous year; and 28 percent improved their arts learning ratings, including ninety-one that moved up from "developing" or "emerging" to "strong" or "excelling." Funded by the Boeing Company, the Crown family, and the Lloyd A. Fry, C. and M. D. McCormick, Polk Bros. and Siragusa foundations, the report rates progress on goals in six categories, both for the district overall and for each school.
