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"Nowhere has discord over COVID protocols escalated so quickly and shut down learning entirely as it did in the country’s third-largest district...But the situation ignited because a longstanding power struggle and deep mistrust between the powerful teachers union and the mayor left leaders primed for conflict — turning Chicago into a national example of dysfunctional education governance."
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Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
CPS is a catastrophe. I wonder what the superintendent interview was like. We’ll pay you we’ll but you’re going to take a beating everyday for the mayors decisions. Your job is to keep the cat parade in straight lines. You own every bad decision. You’re paid well and contractually have 25 years seniority and a nice pension.
The new sup speaks with this thick Latinks accent but he grew up in Chicago, went to high school on the North Side, and then attended U of I and DePaul. Now, where exactly did he get that accent? My kid is still young but he is ready saying “ta” instead of “to”, “fir” instead of “for”, “tree” instead of “three” and just picks up the accent in the community. How did this new sup manage to grow up in Chicago but speak like he learned English in a private school in Argentina? The same place Elizabeth Holmes learned her… Read more »