The Illinois State Board of Education told a Senate Appropriations-Education Committee Wednesday that schools are looking for $10.3 billion for fiscal year 2024 that begins July 1. That is an increase of $517 million from fiscal 2023. ISBE’s budget proposal includes a $75 million increase for early childhood programs.
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.
Money clearly isn’t the problem. Give them all the money in the world…and it wouldn’t improve…because it isn’t the problem.
Throwing more money at failing schools will make them fail harder