Since Illinois school funding derives from property taxes, rural schools don’t have the property base to provide competitive salaries, said Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools Mark Klaisner. In addition, the state has restructured its debt to weigh heavily on the pension process creating insecurity; Pension insecurity is a big deterrent to prospective teachers, he explained.
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.