California-based research company WestEd said “the research team was constrained by the data that the Illinois State Board of Education shared with us.” The data did not contain demographic information about individual students, including race/ethnicity, English learner status or level of economic disadvantage.
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.
640 K to “ review “ a program and come back with inconclusive results. Grift, grift, grift, grift.