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Board adopts Arts Education Plan 2 to expand access and measure quality
Summary
The Chicago Board of Education adopted a five-year arts plan that doubles down on staffing targets and adds a new quality/assessment framework; board members praised arts expansion and the plan passed as a resolution at the July 24 meeting.
The Chicago Board of Education on July 24 adopted the district’s Arts Education Plan 2, a five-year road map that seeks to expand arts staffing and to create new measures of instructional quality.
Nut graf: The plan, presented by Arts Education Executive Director Cesar Turoya and the department’s new director Jeff Orxa, keeps the district’s Creative Schools Certification as the access measure and adds a second goal to measure and improve classroom-level arts instruction and assessment.
What the plan does: CPS said the plan sets a staffing objective of roughly one certified arts teacher per 350 students as a district…
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