The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted data from the Illinois Report card, which is set to be updated again in another few weeks, highlighting specific data out of Decatur.

Shocking would is just the start of the revelations that were highlighted by a non-profit publication earlier this summer that discovered among a host of data points, only two percent of black third graders are reading at grade level and one percent are doing math at grade level in Decatur Public Schools. 

On the WHOW Morning Show Thursday, State Senator Chapin Rose said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has failed the students of Illinois.

In a recent debate where gubernatorial challenger Darren Bailey brought the data up, Governor Pritzker called the publication that first brought the findings to light a "right-wing carnival barker". Sen. Rose says it's classic progressive liberalism where instead of disputing the facts, they call names.

Getting deeper into the curriculum, the Mahomet Republican calls the common core curriculum an abject disaster, which was brought to K-12 education by people in higher education.

Sen. Rose says there was a time people looked to the experts to have answers that made things better but that is no longer the case. He believes when the experts are not making things better, it's time to replace the experts.