Jenni Custer, CPS elected school board member: "As a former Itasca Education Association-Illinois Education Association president, I fought for my members and believe collective bargaining is a sacred process and teachers deserve the best working conditions, pay, benefits and retirement possible. And if our students can’t eat, be housed or supported, how can they learn? All of that is for naught if the district becomes insolvent, and that’s what (Mayor Brandon) Johnson’s loan would do."
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.