From street level: Pension FAQs.
Over the past week I have met with lots of teachers in groups at local schools about the upcoming veto session of the Illinois General Assembly. Dozens and dozens of teachers. Maybe a couple a hundred or so.
This is a tough time for our teachers to do political stuff. Some are in the middle of parent conferences. We’re heading for the end of the first trimester. We’re busy. Busier than the typical busy.
But still, every teacher must now go online each morning and act now.
“Who is this Civic Committee?”
They are Chicago’s corporate elite. Part of the top 1%.
“Why do they care about teacher pensions?”
Public employee pensions are worth billions of dollars. We teachers and other public employees have
Breaking: Michigan Supreme Court gives go ahead to Governor Scott recall.
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