The good news for the new CEO is that CPS is relatively financially stable, at least in the short term. CPS is also graduating more students and sending more of them to college. However, the school system is grappling with plunging enrollment, a thin leadership bench, and a dysfunctional relationship between the mayor and the teachers union.
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.