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.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
They are highly paid when you figure out the actual number of workdays they put in and count the salary, benefits, and huge pensions. Total pay per day far exceeds what a normal hard working private sector citizen earns. Stacey Gates has gouged the taxpayers for the CTU. The results of their work are many kids cannot read to grade level and just get passed through the system graduating have zero job skills.
Just think—you coulda been a teacher! It seems you have some combo pack of envy and regrets working against you.
After looking at student test scores, teachers aren’t doing their jobs. When they stop calling off and actually start teaching language arts, math, science, history, and civics, then they can complain. There should be accountability. Teachers should have their base salary lowered, then receive bonuses if student test scores improve.
The Police and psychologists aren’t doing their jobs either by your standards. We still have both crime as well as brutality and lots of it. Let the floggings begin until performance improves. Seems like a winning strategy, right?
Equating “holding people responsible for performance” with flogging seems a bit over the top, don’t you think?
This may come as a shock, but in the real world people are actually expected to accomplish the tasks they are hired to do.
Most adults only have to work with others who want their services, and if not they part company. In police work, some psychiatric work and k-12 education jobs as well the relationship isn’t generally nearly so short, nor always as cordial and seldom one truly sought by the “customer,” leading to his/her indifference much of the time and even hostility as time proceeds in many cases. If you can’t appreciate the difference here between these two types of employment you’ve likely never been in a job where a mandatory relationship over an extended period of time is part the reason… Read more »
Hmmm. How did teachers in the past actually manage to teach kids to read? A real mystery.
US adult literacy rate was 99% in 1979, 79% today. I guess we could say they had a better success rate in achieving the desired outcome. Maybe we could take a look at how they did it? Just a thought…
The root of the problem in a nutshell is that child-raising has changed all over this country meantime. Now, it’s let the other guy do it to a greater extent. That’s not where children tend to form their basic attitudes. Lazy inattentive parents create lazy goal-less offspring.
Not to mention, you can’t compare literacy rates from 1979 vs. today. The same standards were not being used. He is quoting “basic literacy” (read and write simple sentences) which was the standard in 1979 and comparing it to the “functional literacy” (read, write, comprehend, and apply) standard of today. A true comparison would use the same standard and compare cohorts based on their background (foreign born/non English in home, family income, parental education, etc…). This is why the private schools aren’t about improving outcomes by getting “better” teachers but instead by changing your kids to a higher achieving cohort… Read more »
Blaming the parents should not deflect attention from teachers, administrators and union leaders.
Where do you expect to find better parents among the people schools have passed along and graduated for years, without basic skills?
Or is the plan to just keep blaming the parents until we plummet to 3rd world literacy rates?
James takes the easy way out to avoid the role of teachers in failure to educate students. If teachers can’t overcome obstacles presented by poor parenting, they should notify the principal and boot the kids from class. Instead, they wring their hands and complain to their hapless peers in the teachers’ lunchroom. Pressure from teachers and their union might result in helpful responses from the legislators that teachers and the union buy with political donations.
Yada, yada, yada. Y’ada know better.
It’s unfortunate that’s your only answer. As if you can keep collecting your money forever and blaming parents for everything. Doesn’t sound like a good plan, but it’s not surprising. Good luck with that.