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UIC labor professor Robert Bruno said a second CTU walkout on Lightfoot’s watch “would have not only prevented or delayed CPS from providing instruction to over 300,000 students but in the long run been disastrous. Being able to deliver instruction and educational services in the third largest school district in the country during a pandemic is an enormous logistical puzzle; trying to do so without the full support of her school staff is highly improbable.”
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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It’s efficient because you don’t need to maintain buildings or pay for utilities. It’s efficient because you don’t need as many teachers or administrators. It’s efficient because children don’t need to travel. It’s efficient because you don’t need to maintain fleets of buses or hire drivers. It’s efficient because you don’t need school security or worry about protecting students. It’s efficient because parents can be more involved (if they choose). It’s efficient because you don’t need to worry about weather.
Because it is the unions that run Chicago and Illinois