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Sunday, September 9, 2012

UPDATE: The Sunday Mail - Why I do not support the IEA’s framework for a solution to the pension issue.. « Fred Klonsky

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky:


The Sunday Mail.







Why I do not support the IEA’s framework for a solution to the pension issue.

The Illinois Education Association issued another of it’s press releases today concerning the state’s pension debate.
Written by IEA Communication Director Charlie McBarron, the IEA tries to explain why there has been no progress over the summer.

Pension legislation stalled because of union opposition and because Democrats 



Chicago paleta cart. Photo. Adam Heenan
This week’s Pension Vocabulary by John Dillon: Grasping at Straws.  Nothing that Illinois’ political leaders have proposed will solve the pension issue. It’s time to start looking at a different tax structure.

AFT President Randi Weingarten will be joining Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on a bus tour  of  West Virginia next week. That all. I just thought you should know.
Some time today we will know if Chicago schools will be open tomorrow. The goal was always to preserve and strengthen collective bargaining for Chicago teachers and to get a good contract. The goal was not