Social media outrage brings down anti-union Kenneth Cole billboard.
The billboard, featuring a woman exposing a lot of cleavage combined with an attack on teacher unions may have baffled some. But it pissed off enough people that Kenneth Cole, the sponsor of the sign, is taking it down. The outrage on blogs, Twitter and Facebook proved too much for the shoe monger. This weekend [...]
The in box. Bob Pinkerton, VP of the IRTA.
Remarks by Bob Pinkerton, Vice President, The Illinois Retired Teachers Association Trust me when I say it is impossible for me to accurately and completely convey to you the flood of emotion that has been expressed by retired teachers following Mr. Ingram’s comments on teacher pensions. As a board you should be gravely concerned [...]
Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes?
H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the billboards. They showed a picture of a woman in red with lots of cleavage and a message that teacher unions didn’t [...]
Mad men.
There was a scene in Mad Men last night where Don Draper’s daughter, Sally, is on the phone to her friend, the more-than-slightly-weird Glenn. Sally had just returned from a dinner where her father had received an award. Sally had inadvertently walked in on a sordid scene involving the character Roger and her stepmother’s mother. [...]
The in box. Richard Ingram in Naperville.
From a reader who attended the TRS meeting with TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram in Naperville last week. I attended the Naperville TRS Town Hall meeting Thursday afternoon. It was “troubling.” Terrible location for a meeting. Terrible sound system. No provision for a Mic for questions — so you relied on Ingram’s re-statement as your [...]
Sunday links.
Recall Walker phone banks in Wisconsin. NY Times photo. Apple loves Teach for America, but pays little in state taxes that support public education. John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary lesson of the week: Doublethink. Your pension is now a benefit. Glen Brown poses some important legal questions about Illinois pensions, funding and benefits. He also asks [...]
The in box. Schools are job creators.
Hi Fred, Your post got me thinking today. Illinois is bending over backward to provide TIF districts and corporate welfare to Illinois “job creators” who then get out of paying taxes, further enhancing Illinois’ structural budget deficit. But this is OK the theory goes, because these corporate citizens create jobs that stimulate the Illinois economy. [...]
The in box. The criminal behavior is not limited to Illinois.
Good for you, Fred. Today’s attacks against teachers, their unions, and their pensions is emblematic of the disdain the elite have for those they see as beneath them. In many ways, teachers, police officers, fire fighters, and others in public service are today’s serfs for the lords of the 1%, and those they hold sway [...]
