Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the 80 schools in Illinois where not a single student is proficient in math, why so much of public education has turned into a daycare center, the failures of Chicago’s charter schools, why homes aren’t being built in Illinois, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- 2024 data: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. For reading, it was 24 schools.
- Illinois isn’t building homes. Housing stock is up less than 1% vs. 2020, nation’s 2nd-worst performance.
- ‘Record’ number of Illinois jobs: Don’t be a chump.
- Illinois metro areas take the top four spots for nation’s highest property taxes. Rockford takes the crown.
- Illinois lawmakers ignore where the real transit savings are
- More than $1 billion in market losses is a reminder of how close Chicago pensions are to the brink
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.
$30,000 per year per student. Sound like a lot of money given the results.
Pathetic
But hey, say the Dems, that’s at least 18K blue voters we can count on to be uneducated and dependent on social services their whole lives, as well as their offspring.
So sad Things need to change