Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
Lower the standards and you become a genius, sound about right in this state. The true dumming down of America starts right here
IL not fixing the problem. They just want better stats for Pritzker’s presidential run. Public school systems and teachers need to be held accountable for poor student test scores. Why can private and magnet schools produce students with higher test scores with less money?
Part of it likely is that their parents likely have more interest generally in having better results and will instill that value system in their children. Of at at least equal value to the outcome is that those parents are paying a premium for such education in that also are paying through taxes or rent for the local public schools as well. That likely ramps up their continued personal interest in monitoring their childrens’ progress. It’s a safe bet that a far greater public school parents don’t do that as earnestly, and that many such parents care far more about… Read more »
Once again, how do you expect to find all these dedicated parents among the illiterates schools have been graduating for decades?
The education system has created a giant mess for themselves. Now they need to figure out how to educate the children of the people they passed through without teaching them anything. And they better figure out how to do it soon.
Or do you really believe you can blame parents forever and still find enough productive taxpayers to keep paying your pensions?
What society at large believes or at least tolerates is far, far more important than what I personally believe, yet might isn’t necessarily always highly correlated with what’s morally right.
Parent participation in their children’s education is vital for success. I don’t think there is any doubt that CPS has low parental participation in the education process. However, given the fact that for years this has been the case and the fact that this is a giant social problem that the School Districts clearly can not solve, perhaps focus the point of education on basics to try and drill into the student some level of basic reading, writing and math. Abandon other distractions and eliminate CRT and equity BS. Also, and likely this can’t be done…but, allow the teachers to… Read more »
Only half passed? Well lower the standards some more. 50% is unacceptable. People will think Illinois kids aren’t learning anything.
What do you expect for $30,000 per year? Just think in 14 years of school would equal $420,000 per student that does not know how to read or do math. Money well spent, they can always do criminal activities.
All any educator can be expected do is give his/her best effort. There is never any guarantee that it will produce a set of desirable positive outcomes. Does every psychiatrist who makes some multiple of a teacher’s hourly wage do measurably better? I doubt it. All that happens is you are placing a student or client in repeated contact with an educated person presumably trained to help the odds hoping good results may happen if the other person is receptive. Society generally or you pay the money and you take your chances much like any other gamble in life.
Gosh, but it’s your fault Mr. Tax payer…they just need more money and all will be well….