From 2011-2021, Illinois public schools lost nearly 180,000 students but gained 4,500 teachers. Illinois public schools currently have more than 5,300 unfilled positions, but nearly half of those vacancies are for paraprofessionals, not traditional teachers.
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.