Now with pandemic aid running out, the $10 billion school-district budget doesn’t cover all the district’s pension costs or the union’s requested raises of 5% to 6% a year. The mayor’s solution, first reported over the summer by Chalkbeat: borrow $300 million.
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.