With seven of the 10 races called by the Associated Press after midnight, the union’s endorsed hopefuls won three district seats. Candidates who received anti-CTU, pro-charter school campaign cash won three races. And, in a surprise, independents unaffiliated with either movement won one seat. With the union failing in six districts, a school system that has been under mayoral control for 30 years now looks likely to have a caucus of board members for the first time who aren’t in the mayor’s corner.
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.