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Students, parents and teaching artists urge CPS to preserve ChiArts conservatory model
Summary
Dozens of students, graduates, parents, and teaching artists from the Chicago High School for the Arts told the board that cutting conservatory hours or replacing teaching artists with standard academic staff would undermine the school’s mission; CPS leaders said no final decision had been made and pledged to seek funding partners.
Dozens of current students, alumni, parents and teaching artists from the Chicago High School for the Arts urged the Chicago Board of Education to preserve the school’s conservatory model and to keep teaching artists in classroom roles.
What speakers said: Parents and students described conservatory hours and working artists as instructors as central to the school’s identity and to students’ college and career pathways. Caroline Rutherford (parent/advocate) asked the board not to “fire all the arts teachers who made this world-class art school successful,” and several students said shortening…
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