Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
A proven program that will succeed is called ” Reading Recovery “,A very expensive, one on one program. Look it up.
I took your advice and looked up Reading Recovery. Even NPR admits it doesn’t work. The program essentially only teaches kids to look at context; ie, look at the pictures. Might work in first grade but does not give kids the tools for advanced reading. Of course that tool is phonics, which has been known for a very long time. But progressives know better than centuries of experience…
But the program is expensive and money is always the bureaucracy’s cure.
Start with learning the Alphabet or watch Wheel of Fortune.
Nuns knew how to do it in the 30s & 40s & 50s & 60s!
They taught us using phonics — I guess the Illinois Board of Education is finally getting smart!
That’s an Oxymoron if I ever have heard one. LOL
Yep Gary, I remember spending half the day on phonics.
Revamp reading by throwing out everything we’ve learned about reading since Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and now we focus on making reading a priority…in a woke madrassas
They want “evidence-based” programs for instruction. Hubris overcomes centuries of evidence for how to teach reading.