{"id":242944,"date":"2026-07-13T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/new-illinois-law-prohibits-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations-nbc-chicago\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:30:14","slug":"new-illinois-law-prohibits-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/new-illinois-law-prohibits-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations-nbc-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"New Illinois law prohibits use of AI in teacher evaluations \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-politics\/a-new-illinois-law-will-prohibit-the-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations\/3961026\/\">New Illinois law prohibits use of AI in teacher evaluations \u2013 NBC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-politics\/a-new-illinois-law-will-prohibit-the-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations\/3961026\/\">https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-politics\/a-new-illinois-law-will-prohibit-the-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations\/3961026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 21:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcchicago.com\">www.nbcchicago.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Illinois law, Senate Bill 2909, prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in teacher evaluations, effective January 1, 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The law stops evaluators from assigning numerical scores or qualitative ratings for teachers using AI.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers are also barred from using AI to generate their own portions of evaluations.<\/li>\n<li>The bill was unanimously approved by both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker.<\/li>\n<li>Illinois State Sen. Christopher Belt argues that teachers should be evaluated based on observations and professional judgement, protecting educators&#8217; privacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Illinois law prohibits use of AI in teacher evaluations \u2013 NBC Chicago https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-politics\/a-new-illinois-law-will-prohibit-the-use-of-ai-in-teacher-evaluations\/3961026\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.nbcchicago.com\/2025\/07\/108177603-1753697013259-gettyimages-2226624847-tang-notitle250727_npmMV.jpeg?quality=85&strip=all&resize=1200%2C675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242946,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242944\/revisions\/242946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}