CTU takes credit for triggering multiple teachers’ union strikes around the nation in recent years, claiming its 2012 strike, “changed the future of organizing.” That strike also forced the closure of 50 schools and the layoff of thousands of teachers so Chicago Public Schools could cut costs to compensate for satisfying the union’s expensive demands.
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.