ASPIRA is the latest charter school operator in CPS to run into serious financial problems. Already this school year, a small charter school in South Chicago announced plans to close in June. And last school year, one of the district’s largest charter school networks, Acero, announced plans to shutter seven of its 15 schools. But the CPS Board of Education decided to take over the management of five of them.
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.