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
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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.
There’s nothing wrong with Illinois education that a few thousand nuns couldn’t fix.
Imagine a teacher of tomorrow having to put in a bit of effort…certainly not in Illinois
Well of course they would suspend all competency testing for teachers. Academic achievement measurement for teachers is a former “white privilege”, a “woke” political no-no. Erase minimum academic standards, eliminate teacher competency standards, prohibit legitimate teacher evaluation ratings, and you create a school system that’s no more than a very expensive babysitting service for folks unable to outsource their children’s education to private-sector, and employment base for Illinois Democrats’ woke political-base and primary campaign war-chest of captive “political-action” union dues. It’s a self-serving soft-ice cream political machine: in goes the teacher union dues, out comes employment-for-life for minimal effort, and… Read more »
It’s actually far worse and more insidious than an expensive baby sitting service. The goal is to turn schools into woke indoctrination camps, where kids will be force fed woke nonsense 8 hours a day by woke teachers with pink hair who get off talking to 3rd graders about private body parts. Cook County Commissioner and avowed communist Anthony Joel Quezada is a CPS grad who realized he was a commie and gay at 16, went straight into politics instead of college, and now he is 30 years old and in charge of one of the largest counties in America,… Read more »
Cardboard cut outs would do just as good of a job teaching as is being done right now.
“What we started to find is that people said, ‘I’m not putting myself through that. It’s too much work, it’s too much too many hoops to jump through,’” said Mark Klaisner, president of The Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of School.” Another profession could say the exact same thing about licensing requirements: nurses. There is a critical shortage of nurses. Let’s give prospective nurses the same deal as prospective teachers: No significant proficiency measurements… And while we are at it, Illinois must hate nurses if it doesn’t require the same retirement deal teachers get (work 20 years, contribute 1% or… Read more »
Knew Klaisner when he was a ordinary Lincolnwood principal of lower-level grade school with mediocre student-achievement scores and mediocre teachers. For fact, he recommended that college-educated parents would be best served moving out of Lincolnwood to more academically-inclined school districts. He’s expertly ridden proverbial gravy-train of public school administration promotions.