Before remote learning started, CPS estimated that about 115,000 students, or nearly a third of the total student body, needed a laptop or tablet in order to participate in learning from home. As of the end of day Tuesday, about 55,000 devices had been logged as distributed to students at nearly 400 district-run schools.
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.