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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Dear Charlie. « Fred Klonsky

Dear Charlie. « Fred Klonsky:


Dear Charlie.


Sixty IEA members travel from the north suburbs of Chicago to Springfield to fight for pensions, but nobody from the IEA Communications office takes notice.
Dear Charlie McBarron,
Just because you’re pissed at me, Charlie, don’t take it out on everyone in Region 36.
I knew things had gotten bad when you unfriended me from Facebook.
That was when you mistakenly mentioned on one of your status updates that IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Council on Teacher Quality.  Other members of the Advisory Board include Teach For America’s Wendy Kopp, StudentsFirst’s Michelle Rhee, News Corpration’s Joel Klein, Michael Feinberg who is founder of the mega-charter KIPP, Fred Hess of the American Enterprise