Our union leaders must stand up to Boss Madigan.
Jim Broadway reports in his Illinois School Policy Update the next few weeks will be crucial to the future of teacher tenure and seniority rights in the state.
Illinois teachers will be under the gun in Aurora Thursday and Friday when the new House Education Reform Committee holds perhaps its only hearings before legislators are asked to consider its findings in early January.
Although the committee postings are conspicuously silent on the topics – no bills are assigned to the panel, and just a blank space follows the words “subject matter.”
The agenda:
Thursday’s 1 p.m. topics will be “Streamlining Teacher Dismissal, Reforming Teacher Tenure, Linking
