funding
The greatest challenge in each CPS school remains balancing adequate financial resources to fulfill the CPS Arts Education Plan ’ s staffing and instructional goals . Individual school budgets have been shrinking in recent years . Principals find themselves balancing arts staffing needs against other pressing staffing or capital needs . This challenge of resources is a common thread among many large urban districts .
School-by-school investments in the arts , including public monies such as federal Title I and state supplements to high-poverty schools , were earmarked by principals from their individual budgets along with studentbased budget allocations to support arts education . Many schools have demonstrated a commitment to maintaining arts programs and staff by dedicating parts of their budget to the arts ; 91 percent of schools maintained a dedicated arts budget .
Schools also reported taking measures to secure arts education funds additional to what was provided by the district . Resources like those collected through student council , Local School Council , or booster club fundraisers ; outside grants such as Ingenuity ’ s Creative Schools Fund ; student fees ; arts partner and parent donations ; and other resources such as DonorsChoose are , for some schools , an important source of arts funding . Accurately assessing the amount of money raised through this wide array of sources , school-by-school , across the breadth of the district remains a challenge in the absence of a uniform or centralized tracking system .
COMMUNITY FUNDERS
+ DISTRICT BUDGET
=$ 148,120,399
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See Data Notes on p . 76-77 for details on how staffing data were calculated .
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