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Chicago has 11 selective-enrollment high school. The schools are not just the best in Chicago - but rank among the top high schools in the entire country.
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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
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Private schools will have large waiting lists. Young families will be fleeing to the suburbs.
Many middle and upper middle class suburban elementary public schools have been losing student populations since before covid. I pointed that out several months ago. Big declines, like 10% to 17% student losses from 2018 to 2023. A handful of suburbs stayed flat, they are the thriving ones. Even more shockingly, the middle to lower class suburbs have lost even more. Cicero SD 99 dropped from 11,874 students in 2018 to 8,774 in 2023. That’s over 26%, or more than 1 in 4 students have disappeared from Cicero SD 99 since 2018. Same in Berwyn, Romeoville, Harvey, Crystal lake….It’s everywhere.… Read more »
it would be a fun exercise to research what CPS HS reading and math scores would look like with top 11 selective enrollment HS stripped out?….could it get any worse for all the astronomical $ spent?