Said state Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, "We cannot afford to have another generation of students to be on the school-to-prison pipeline. In Illinois, 22 percent of Black students are ready for kindergarten, 15 percent can read by fourth grade, and Black students have a 75 percent graduation rate. Each of those metrics falls behind children of different races.
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.