Advocates urged ISBE to seek additional funding through the General Assembly to prevent the programs whose grants are expiring from closing. But spokesperson Jackie Matthews said the agency does not intend to do that. Instead, it is asking the federal government for permission to use pandemic relief funds to cover the amount that was over-allocated for next year.
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.
Did someone misplace a decimal point while thinking that Math was racist?