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.
But far less than 30% of CPS HS graduates are academically equipped at HS graduation to meaningfully succeed at “college”, as indicated in low CPS test-achievement scores, and low ACT 18 – 19 average scores. Far too many CPS students are subject to social-promotion, grade-after-grade, failing to meet CPS’s already dumbed-down academic grade standards. Far too many CPS HS grads are functionally illiterate, unable to meet even 8th grade reading and math standards, as proven by those horrible ACT scores. Many of these “substandard-achievement” CPS grads will face repayment obligations for their student loans, despite absence of college diploma or… Read more »
Chalkbeat Chicago is the paid propaganda outlet of the crooked corrupt CTU and is race-hustling, hypocrite, liar President Stacy Davis Gates. Anything from Chalkbeat Chicago is an automatic fraud,
They must be referring to the small percentage that actually learn to read, write and do math.
The rest? Well, they are featured on CWB Chicago and are protected by the SAFE-T act.