Early data shows around 88% of participants are sticking with CPS five years in. Officials hope that’ll help with the district’s teacher retention problems, especially if the program keeps growing. CPS hires around 1,500 teachers every year, so next year’s 225-member cohort will account for around 15 percent of those hires.
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.