Survey2026-08-27
HR leaders from Fairfax County Public Schools, Indianapolis Public Schools and the Colorado Department of Education described on an 11 August panel how they use AI for records clean-up, first-pass scoring of principal applicants and standardised salary offer emails. All said final decisions stay with people. Indianapolis builds its own tools on Google Gemini and bars personally identifiable information from them.
What changed
Staff manually scored every initial principal application by rubric, and employee records sat scattered across separate systems.
What it unlocks
Screening a first round of applicants against an existing scoring rubric before a human hiring committee takes over.
- 40,000+ employee records consolidated
- $300,000 saved in 2026-27
- up to $500,000 more expected next year
What you need to act on it
- internally built tools rather than third-party vendors
- a rule against entering personally identifiable data
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