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.
The things that the geniuses running DPS can’t measure are the sense of despair and hopelessness their graduates feel when they start a job or pursue higher education and realize that DPS failed to teach them even the most basic concepts and skills they need.
Statements like “we thrive at things you cannot measure” and “we are unable to make improvements based on outside factors” undermine their entire argument.
A column that takes a long time to tell us that Decatur school officials don’t dispute any of the data used to support the WirePoints and WSJ articles, but that they believe the articles are unfair because lots of other stuff, that they don’t identify, is going well in the district. Aside from the school cafeterias reliably providing taxpayer funded meals to those kids who bother to show up, I wonder what the other “successes” might be. With a number approaching half of the district’s students chronically truant, I suspect that the district’s unidentified “successes” are pretty much just a… Read more »
but this one-sided article unfairly paints DPS, our staff, and our students as a failure.” Of course they fail the most important, and really only metric that matters, academic performance.
But they claim they are thriving in other areas. What areas are those? Social justice? Gender bendering? Grooming? Equity? You have a thriving equitable atmosphere?
And then they blame IL for low funding of education. How completely disingenuous. Mostly local taxes fund schools in Illinois, so yes, IL funds states at a low level.
3 out of every 4 students in America would love to have the per pupil funding of Decatur.