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Cyndi Oberle-Dahm, Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers: "But the truth is that children not getting a quality education miss the same leg up whether it's in East St. Louis or in Rockford. And the example educators and parents have set in Chicago is one that all of us could benefit from. In their last contract, the educators didn't just win for themselves, they got smaller class sizes, won mandatory recess, and increased access to sports, arts, and music."
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
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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.
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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
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Like PPF the CTU, IFT, etc. are a bunch of whiners.
Don’t ask what they are going to do to improve the K-12 education product they are so horribly mismanaging in Illinois.
Consider the source. Mo’mony, Mo’mony…the education business is not about education or the kids…it is about money. Period. Clearly mo’mony doesn’t have any impact on the quality of education, only the bank accounts of the administrators, teachers and pensioners. School Districts are nothing more than Transportation, Food Service and Daycare. They require giant facilities to provide the facade of activities with huge maintenance costs, staffs of people to shuffle paper and follow procedures, fleets of vehicles and in many cases 3 meals a day cafeterias. All this to fail in teaching lil’ johnny how to read and add.
Did they win the right to educate students to be ready for the workforce, being be able to read, write and do math to a minimum standard?
We’re not supposed to notice that they “won” less time to teach the fundamentals, and more time that they can shuffle kids off to recess and art. Get those kids out of my classroom and away from me for as long as possible!
Never ending battle for money, not better education, but MORE MONEY.