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Friday, April 30, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Condo in Florida still for sale

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Condo in Florida still for sale

Condo in Florida still for sale

"Model" D.C. contract is a sham

Back in August, 2008 I wrote about "Rhee's cynical tenure-for-pay swap."
But the problem is, technocrat Rhee and Mayor Fenty are in league with Ownership Society privatizers bent on replacing public with privately managed (non-union) charter schools and vouchers for Catholic (non-union) schools. That means that the pay provisions of any new contract won’t be worth the paper they’re written on...
And then a little more than a year ago, when the deal was first officially proposed in D.C., I