Thomas Bertrand, executive director of the Illinois Association of School Boards, says it’s a delicate balance. “If you talk to the practitioners in the classroom, I think there’s going to be some concern about increasing testing right now with all of the other needs that students and teachers are going to have."
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.