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Good morning! Reema Amin here from Chalkbeat Chicago.
Are there days you feel like your inbox is littered with emails trying to sell you something? If you’re a superintendent, it might be part of the norm.
Our national reporter, Lily Altavena, asked four superintendents to give her a peek into the ed tech companies that were emailing them. On a single day in March, they shared more than 90 messages from 79 companies.
It’s a window into how AI is allowing new ed tech products to flourish and leading companies to target taxpayer dollars at a potentially faster pace.
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