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.
And that is why Stacey’s kids are assured of a quality education in private schools. Her job is safe
CPS can save MILLIONS by CLOSING but they hat would mean a loss of union jobs . Remember CTU owns your children. It’s about THEM NOT THE STUDENTS.
This chalkbeat article pretty much states in reality CPS isn’t laying anybody off. They’re just shuffling mostly SEIU support staff around.(https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/07/02/chicago-public-schools-shifts-special-education-staffing/)
No more money for CTU and CPS become financially responsible. Close underutilized schools and cut staff. And no more money until student test scores improve demonstrating that they are doing their jobs.
100s of low pay, mostly black & brown, SEIU get the pink slips while only 7 highest paid big city, majority white, CTU teachers get the pink slip????—EQUITY!!!, or as Stacy likes to say, “y’all ain’t sh#t”
To the Stacy’s of the world, there is her union and everyone else is expendable cannon fodder.