IFT’s federal filing with the U.S. Department of Labor shows just over one-quarter of the union’s spending is on representing teachers. It also spent more than $1 million on politics – mostly for unspecified purposes – and paid dozens of its own employees six-figure salaries.
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.