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"No one knows — not even the city of Chicago —who these kids are. Within the last decade, including the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, Chicago Public Schools lost 70,000 students. Some may have moved. Some may have gone to private schools. But the number of CPS middle and high schoolers missing 18 days or more of school shot up during the pandemic and has remained high..."
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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As my dad has always said: it starts in the home.
Who forgot them? First of all their parents. Second, the dysfunctional black culture. Third, a city and press corps that has given them a pass for 60 years because of something none of these kids ever experienced. But hey, let’s forget about all that and blame it on everyone else that works every day and makes sure their children are doing what they are supposed to. If these teen takeovers aren’t poster material for the failures of progressive ideas, I don’t know what is.
It is hard to recognize this group as “children” when they commit serious adult crimes. Chicago has long played the sympathy card for the oppressed and underfunded while CTU teachers, administrators and politicians continue to collect a paycheck and more importantly, of course, their pension check. It is the Chicago way not to hold anyone accountable and to just throw taxpayer money at endless committees and NGOs decade after decade.
If California can get momentum for a new governor and LA mayor, certainly chicago can do better as well.