Ingenuity State of the Arts Progress Report 2015-2016 | Page 71

goal

data-driven decisions

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Build a sustainable system infrastructure to track , analyze , and disseminate standardized data on arts instruction and programming .
Ingenuity ’ s artlook Suite collects and disseminates data on the arts in schools , as well as community arts offerings . Efforts to create arts indicators that can be used to measure school success , as well as efforts to build capacity to communicate arts learning outcomes via assessments , are in progress ; progress on both fronts can be expected to increase when the Illinois Arts Learning Standards and the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act are implemented in 2018-19 .
CPS arts education plan progress
Create a system to track elementary school-level arts data .
Include the arts on measures of school success ( i . e . principal evaluations ) and in internal tracking mechanisms ( i . e . staffing , courses , and additional benchmarks ).
Measure reach , implementation , and effectiveness outcomes of arts partnerships , so schools can determine “ quality ” partnerships .
Integrate the arts into the school scorecard with multiple indicators , FAQs , an information portal , and a summary of data .
Create an assessment system that qualitatively and quantitatively captures , measures , and communicates arts learning outcomes and that recognizes the uniqueness of arts and student learning .

goal

across all priorities

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Ensure adequate and sustainable arts education funding is equitably distributed across the district and additional funds are available to support arts innovation and school action plans .
Funding from the Creative Schools Fund and the district have become an important part of how schools plan and budget for arts education alongside their other priorities each year . Requiring schools to maintain an arts budget has gotten more difficult as the district and the city struggle through some of the most difficult budget challenges in CPS history .
Require each school to maintain a budget for the arts set at a minimum percent of each school ’ s overall budget or a perpupil or per-art formula .
Establish a district fund to provide all schools with adequate material and resources .
Create an external Arts Expansion and Alignment Fund to support schools directly for external partnerships that are in addition to certified arts staff .
Develop and maintain external funding streams via previously untapped sources such as corporate and public donation .
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