Funding earmarked for education continues to be diverted from classrooms and spent on pensions and excess district-level administration. From 2000 through 2020, spending on teacher and administrator pensions increased by 200%, while spending in the classroom rose just 20% for K-12 schools.
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.