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.
Business as usual for the public schools education business. Lower the requirements, pass everyone, reward administration and teachers for being excellent…and the gravy train goes on and on.
A rather long winded explanation for dumbing down the test, as students from other countries run circles around ours.
Am I reading this right? “We have already begun the work to realign our proficiency benchmarks, to give us more accurate data, to better support our outcomes.” The state is going to change (lower) the score where a student is deemed proficient to support their desired outcome of increased student proficiency in math? Why educate them when we can just say “Everyone passes!”
Don’t worry about teaching what students need to thrive, just lower the bar.
Yep, nothing new here. Move the goalposts to make it appear students are more proficient to make yourselves look better.