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ChiArts community urges board to preserve conservatory model as CPS proposes schedule changes
Summary
Teachers, students and parents from the Chicago High School for the Arts told the board compressing the school day would erode the conservatory model that gives students 15 hours per week of preprofessional training and an 8 a.m.–5 p.m. structure; they urged collaborative solutions with CPS and the teachers’ union.
Members of the Chicago High School for the Arts community told the Chicago Board of Education on March 4 that a proposed compressed school schedule would dismantle the school’s conservatory model and harm students’ academic and arts outcomes.
"Shy Arts was founded to provide preprofessional training to novice artists to expand and diversify access to arts education in Chicago," said Philip Lewandowski, an English teacher at ChiArts. "This uninterrupted, intentional conservatory time is crucial to developing and nurturing young scholar artists." Lewandowski and other speakers said the draft…
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