In the last school year Douglass High School was enrolled at only 5% of its capacity. Fenger, 15%. Hirsch, 10%. Manley, 6%. Austin and Tilden, 11%. Many Chicago elementary schools also are miserably underutilized — even as some CPS schools are overcrowded.
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.