"School officials — conveniently, even if accurately — attribute part of the reason for the poor performance to the school lockdowns ordered by state officials during the coronavirus pandemic. That was a self-inflicted wound vastly overdone by those who professed to know better but didn’t. So it’s catch-up time, and that apparently is going to take some time."
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.