Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools Executive Director Dave Ardrey said ongoing litigation and executive mandates aside, small districts continue to focus on the mission of educating children. “I think individual schools are back to kind of that local control and working through this issue with their own boards and their own superintendents and their districts’ parents."
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.