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.
Protest on a Saturday, not a school day.
“Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday hinted strongly that he supports the Chicago Teachers Union’s call to officially sanction a one-day strike on May 1 that would allow students at Chicago Public Schools to miss a day of classes to make their case for increased school funding.” A strike means no pay. If the employees are then given “back pay”, as in previous strikes, I would say that CPS parents have the right to sue, since it violates CPS’s own Code of Ethics, Section IV, paragraph H: Political Activity: No Official or Employee shall perform any Political Activity while conducting Board… Read more »
Article of possible interest: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/want-better-schools-its-all-up-to-states/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020260317%20(1)&spMailingID=36197700&spUserID=MjM1MTMzMTM2OTgxS0&spJobID=3103482994&spReportId=MzEwMzQ4Mjk5NAS2
Here’s another link that describes the superiority of grade school teaching on U.S. military bases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/schools-pandemic-defense-department.html
At $29,028 per student, CPS is already fully funded. These CPS students should be in class for more rigorous studies or they’ll end up a complete ignoramus like Mayor Cliff Notes.
The entire line of discussion by Pinhead in the article is offensive and racist. Illinois Public Schools are already funded and more is spent on the facade of educating students than almost anywhere. Illinois is 8th from the top out of all states. The State Legislature seems hell bent on making sure we are all broke paying for Public Schools, the trouble is they do not have an answer to the major nagging underlying problems. The majority of the funding is spent on inner city CPS schools where there is little parental participation for generations, causing illiterate students to be… Read more »
“Reminded by a reporter that CPS students already will be off Tuesday…”, Johnson will probably tell them to work/vote for Taxwinkle, Stratton and whomever the Teacher’s Unions are supporting today…
Students are failing. Students being off for political purposes should not be allowed to, especially since CPS is not educating students.
Day off please make sure there’s NO FEDERAL funding for that day!
Really ??? This is embarrassing. If the CTU wasn’t so greedy, if we consolidate schools,dump unused properties and underperforming teachers ,we wouldn’t need a gofundme for schools . We are a national embarrassment