“If this goes away, we would lose some of our students, who are really our family members. A lot of our students can’t afford that,” said Tammi Karam, director of operations at Kingswood Academy in Darien, a southwest Chicago suburb. She said 1 in 5 of Kingswood’s students rely on the scholarships.
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.