Earlier this year Nikki Henry resigned her position as chief communications officer in Fresno Unified after it came to light that material she’d assembled about the teachers union using artificial intelligence was riddled with fabricated quotes.

Steven Roesch

Opinion

Following her departure, leaders in Fresno Unified decided to give her severance pay in the amount of $162,000.

But what exactly does $162,000 mean in educational terms? How might that amount have made an impact at some FUSD schools?

Not being an expert in such matters, I turned to some AI tools: Perplexity as well as the latest version of ChatGPT.

My Question for AI

I asked each program the same question:

“If the Fresno Unified School District had an extra $162,000 at its disposal, what might it do to improve student

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