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.
If the only way you can survive and thrive is through filing law suits and in the courts…there is something wrong with the entire process, concept and arrangement. The entire district should be dismantled and started over.
The union never wants teachers evaluated on individual merit, only on seniority and degrees and collectively. No matter how bad a teachers outcomes are. Then when the CPS goes ahead and evaluates a group of them collectively they suddenly holler “look at my individual merit!”. The CTU is all about moving the goalposts every time they don’t get their way.
Quite the conundrum for CPS: Minority communities demand minority teachers for their schools > hire minority teachers > place those teachers in minority schools > schools perform poorly > close schools > fire teachers
If the goal is to have the teacher body reflect the student body (it is), then CPS is always going to have this issue. It is disingenuous to claim discrimination as this is results-based closures.