Three of the area's largest school districts - Rockford Public School District 205 (67.6 percent), Freeport School District 145 (65.7 percent), and Belvidere District 100 (72.6 percent) - are all seeing their students well below the state average (82.2 percent) when it comes to 9th graders being on track to graduate. The trend of 9th graders not being on track to graduate has been an issue in the Stateline for sometime.
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.