{"id":243266,"date":"2026-07-14T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-on-use-of-ai-in-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:20:14","slug":"artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-on-use-of-ai-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-on-use-of-ai-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence news: Illinois education officials release guidance on use of AI in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-use-ai-public-schools\/19508487\/\">Artificial intelligence news: Illinois education officials release guidance on use of AI in public schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-use-ai-public-schools\/19508487\/\">https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/artificial-intelligence-news-illinois-education-officials-release-guidance-use-ai-public-schools\/19508487\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 19:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc7chicago.com\">abc7chicago.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Guidance Issued by Illinois Education Officials<\/strong><br \/>\nIllinois education officials have provided comprehensive guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public schools.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>State Superintendent&#8217;s Involvement<\/strong><br \/>\nIllinois State Board of Education State Superintendent Dr. Tony Sanders emphasized the importance of AI being used to benefit students and teachers, rather than as a replacement for educators.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>District-Specific Decisions<\/strong><br \/>\nDecisions on AI use will be individually made by each of Illinois&#8217; 851 school districts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Tool Rather Than Replacement<\/strong><br \/>\nSuperintendent Sanders stressed that AI should be viewed as a tool, not as a replacement for human educators.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Supportive Guidance Document<\/strong><br \/>\nThe guidance document, spanning about 400 pages, offers detailed information about AI and examples of its application in teaching.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Legislative and Institutional Actions<\/strong><br \/>\nRecent legislative actions include Illinois Governor JB Pritzker&#8217;s signing of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, and the University of Chicago&#8217;s decision to restrict AI use in law classrooms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ongoing Education and Updates<\/strong><br \/>\nState superintendents are participating in a webinar on AI, and school districts will be asked to recommend individuals for committees that will update the state&#8217;s AI guidance throughout the school year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence news: Illinois education officials release guidance on use of AI in public schools&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/19508966_071426-wls-leah-ai-in-schools-guidance-5p-vid.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-243266","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\/243266"}],"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=243266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243268,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243266\/revisions\/243268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}