Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined WLS 890’s Pete McMurray and Judy Pielach to talk about how the Illinois education system isn’t preparing students for the future. Ted asked how struggling cities like Decatur are going to survive when the students entering the workforce can’t read to do math at grade level.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Poor achievement, zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Video
- Suburban Chicago school district controversy: No plan to fix black academic failure
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Special Report
- Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary 
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.