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Preliminary data released by the Illinois State Board of Education shows overall enrollment dropped by about 31,000 students — or 1.7% — between last school year and the current one, according to numbers as of Dec. 14. Chicago Public Schools accounts for at least a quarter of the decline.
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.
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Yet the costs continue to rise even though the resource users continue to drop
Who would have thought public school enrollment could actually decline?
Dems, I’ve got a work around that’ll save your bacon. Just keep importing illegals and shipping them to Chicago. CPS will actually see an enrollment gain that will offset the decrease of students that are American citizens.
One draw back: It’ll be hard to say with a straight face that any future funding increase is for the children unless you mean children that shouldn’t even be in thus country.
Parents want kids to get an actual education — not to be brainwashed by race hate curriculum, taught how to hate America, and exposed to filth and perversion by pink haired, nose ring sex degenerates with severe mental problems
With ChatGPT, who needs educated kids?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-can-save-education-from-itself-chatgpt-reform-information-skills-tools-reasoning-opportunity-11674513542?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
Enrollment nationwide is projected to drop over the long-term. There’s gonna be a rude awakening in the education sector and none of them are prepared for it.
Everything about education is changing: there are fewer students, more of them are minority and poor, and come from cultures and households that don’t value education, and the relentless focus on equity – where over half of IL are minority and low income – has been a complete and utter disaster. None of them will admit it either. I guarantee you that 40 years from now, if I’m still alive, parts of Chicago, the suburbs and IL will look like the third world – with unenforced building codes, shanty towns, shoddily built infrastructure, nearly illiterate populace, and 75% of the… Read more »
Your forgot gated communities with their own private security officers….
Why wait 40 years? Drive the lower level of Wacker Drive or south on Union from18th Street and you’ll see all the cardboard and tent cities you need. Third world life style is already here.
When the pension plans finally go broke, the vacant schools will be offered as housing to retired educators and they’ll be charged a rent debit directly from their pension amount. The balance of the pension will Be paid in scrip, honored at face value in a CPS store located in the building. The prices will be inflated to eat up as much of the balance as possible. This allows for distributing as little actual U.S. currency as possible.