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Students, parents and teaching artists urge board to preserve ChiArts conservatory model
Summary
Dozens of students, parents and teaching artists from the Chicago High School for the Arts urged the Board of Education to preserve the school's conservatory schedule and keep teaching artists employed, warning that proposed schedule changes would dismantle the conservatory model.
During the public‑comment portion of the March 19 meeting, many students, teaching artists and parents from the Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) urged the board to preserve the school’s conservatory model and protect teaching‑artist roles.
Speakers described the conservatory as essential to ChiArts’ identity and outcomes and said that proposed schedule changes (moving conservatory hours or shortening the day) would force cuts to teaching artists and core conservatory time. "There is no art school without artists," former student and teaching‑artist Aria Hawkins…
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