If approved, the rule also would allow district officials to call on all employees to report to work in person, something the rule says is “an essential function of most jobs.” That provision echoes the district’s recent standoff with its teachers union over reopening elementary schools, when the union directed members to continue working remotely.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.