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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Sunday links. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Sunday links. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Sunday links.

“You don’t make radical changes in times of trouble,” Marilyn Stewart told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday. 20,000 of the 26,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted on Friday and barely a third seem to agree with Stewart. Her opponent in the June 11 runoff is Karen Lewis who headed the CORE caucus slate of candidates. “But Lewis posed this question: ‘And exactly what has this experience gotten us?’ Lewis maintained Saturday that Chicago has seen an influx of charter schools and ‘lots of union jobs lost’ in recent years that her caucus already has been fighting against.”
Rush Limbaugh is a child, a primal scream of a man, but he gets his way because he’s the fat bully on the playground; and Glenn Beck is the weepy kid who’s always crying because he’s insane and you don’t know what he’s going to do and who he’s going to take with him. Bill Maher
University of Minnesota study finds post-Katrina charterized school system in New Orleans has served to

IEA political endorsements. Catch it if you can.

For a few days following the General Assembly adjournment there was a flurry of posts on the IEA web site about IEA political endorsements (actually IPACE recommendations). Members wrote in to say we shouldn’t recommend any House member who voted the wrong way on TRS or funding. Some leadership people wrote in and jabbered some more jabber about the importance of being at the table.
I went searching on the IEA web site for IPACE recommendation procedures.
As a past local president for ten years I’ve taken part in recommendation hearings. I had thought I had a general understanding of how they work, but they have always seemed to follow a vague set of rules that I had never actually been provided.
I searched. “IPACE recommendation procedures.” Nothing.