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.
One of the best things about No Child Left Behind was that it lended hard data, to facts of life we all already knew. Namely, education of the mother and income are the greatest predictors of students’ success. You need high parent buy in to counter that, and it’s an extremely heavy lift, even with dedicated teachers. Without parent buy in, there’s little order, without order, there’s little rigor, and without rigor, we have what we have now; students who graduate, but have few marketable academic and social skills. Successful outliers like certain private or schools, or selective enrollment schools… Read more »
And even with a seemingly manageable ratio of CPS staff/ students, the majority of students leave school without any skills to compete in an increasingly competitive world. But hey, 90% of them graduate!
Why would you need skills if you never intend to be employed?