The Chicago Board of Education voted Tuesday to absorb Chicago High School for the Arts and to allocate emergency funding to a South Chicago charter school to remain open through the end of the academic year.

Under the passed proposal, ChiArts will be converted into a district-run magnet school, after its independent board announced last month that it would not seek a renewal application due to financial issues.

The board also included an amendment pledging to preserve the Humboldt Park school’s arts conservatory model “to the greatest extent practicable.” Currently, the ChiArts students spend three hours per day training on visual or performing arts — a program that would cost the district an extra $600,000 to maintain.

“This board is completely supportive of ChiArts, I don’t think

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