The 2025 report card showed only 38.4 percent of Illinois students overall scored proficient or better in math, compared to 52.4 percent in English language arts. A statewide, comprehensive "numeracy plan" will direct not just the way math is taught in the classroom, but how math teachers are trained in the profession and math programs are administered in school districts.
If you teach them math (as you should) they will flee Illinois once they see how much debt each one of them are in to the state to fund the huge pension shortfall.
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.
If you teach them math (as you should) they will flee Illinois once they see how much debt each one of them are in to the state to fund the huge pension shortfall.