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.
Public schools in Illinois have about 180 student attendance days.
So teachers in retirement can continue to be substitute teachers for about 67%, or 2/3rds (120/180 days) of their pre-retirement attendance day workload.
The collective bargaining agreement between the school district and the teacher union local, which is posted on the website of each school district, contains the details of a teacher’s workload.
One of the main arguments the teacher unions (IEA/IFT) made to justify lowering the teacher retirement age was to increase the quality of education.