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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Saturday coffee.

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We’re midway through the stress weeks: Report cards and three evenings of parent conferences.

And then there’s all the nonsense that is coming out of last weekends IEA Board of Directors meeting.

Yesterday I reported on rumors circulating through the IEA of a proposal in which the Association would support taxing teacher retiree pension benefits. The fact that the discussion took place at last weekend’s IEA Board of Directors meeting has now been confirmed.

Monday I’m going to begin reporting on what Ken Swanson presented to the Board as a “challenging issues discussion.”

The list constituted all the possible give-aways our IEA could come up with. It was a white flag of surrender of

Old school.

Boz Scaggs.

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