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More arts classes in CPS schools is an easy sell. Paying for it and finding teachers is the real feat.

9/16/2024

"CPS set itself apart as a national leader in understanding the value of art education and investment after creating an expansive arts plan in 2012, said Nicole Upton, executive director of Ingenuity, a nonprofit founded to assess and support arts education in Chicago. That plan established a goal of one art teacher for every 350 students. In the baseline report, 56% of schools met the standard; in the most recent report from 2023, 73% did."

WBEZ Newscast for Thursday, April 11, 2024, 8:00 am

4/11/2024

"The arts are part of the core curriculum. Period. They’re not an extra. We have to use the data to help remind people, if this is really part of the core, if we really believe in this, then what do we need to do to make sure that the kids who have the least [access to the arts] don’t have the least anymore," said Nicole Upton, Executive Director at Ingenuity.

Better Makers: Yo-Yo Ma Congratulates Ingenuity on 10 Years of Success as Arts Education Nonprofit Looks to the Next Decade

8/27/2021

Lollapalooza partners with Ingenuity to donate $2.2 million to CPS

7/29/2021

Lollapalooza teams up with Ingenuity to donate $2.2 million to CPS

7/29/2021

As budget cuts loom, sustaining the arts is among K-12 challenges

9/3/2020

This Week’s ESSA News: A New Way to Compare Graduation Rates, Illinois Becomes First State to Feature Arts as Key State Measure, Feds Grant Testing Waivers & More

3/31/2020

Illinois adopts arts as a weighted success indicator in ESSA accountability

3/20/2020

Illinois Just Took A Big Step For Arts Education

3/19/2020

Illinois Becomes the First State to Include the Arts as an Indicator of K-12 Success in School Accountability System

3/19/2020

How Arts Education Supports Social-Emotional Development: A Theory of Action

1/14/2020

A world apart, students from Little Village, Rwanda come together through art

12/06/2019

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Few states recognize the arts as part of their ESSA accountability plans

02/27/2019

Arts Alliance Illinois And Partners To Hold Mayoral Arts Forum At Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse

01/15/2019

5 tough questions a new report puts front-and-center for Chicago’s next mayor

09/21/2018

Heinz Family Foundation Awards 6 Individuals $1.5 Million for ‘Changing the World’

09/18/2018

A strategy to bring arts to schools throughout Detroit

02/03/2018

Making arts a core component in Chicago schools: A 5-year report card

12/19/2017

Can Yo-Yo Ma save Chicago? He's certainly trying

06/23/2017

Music Education Class Sets the Tone for Bright Futures

06/05/2017

Chance the Rapper announces $1 million donation from Chicago Bulls to CPS

04/01/2017

A Blueprint for Successful Arts Education

11/30/2016

More Chicago Public Schools Have Arts, Survey Finds

01/20/2016

CPS Arts Instruction Growing, But Parts of City Still Lagging Behind

11/28/2016

Arts Education Poised for Comeback in Nation’s Largest School Districts

05/04/2015

Crowns lead $38 million campaign for arts in schools

10/23/2014

Schools on South, West sides left behind in CPS arts plan

07/09/2014

Chicago business world gathers to honor innovative companies

10/30/2013