Poverty Plus®
I will say this for Kelly Cassidy: she gets back to you. I'm not fully confident that TRS or really anyone else is going to be able to come up with several scenarios about what retirement looks like for career teachers in Illinois under the cash balance proposal---- but she did commit to trying to provide these for me.
The only thing that I can determine so far is that people working in public education in the future--- at least in Illinois--- will be full participants in the race to the bottom that's affecting regular working people everywhere now. This is what We Are One determined about how the members of SURS would fare under the cash balance proposal (p. 15)
The only thing that I can determine so far is that people working in public education in the future--- at least in Illinois--- will be full participants in the race to the bottom that's affecting regular working people everywhere now. This is what We Are One determined about how the members of SURS would fare under the cash balance proposal (p. 15)
Standards Porn, and Two Recommendations
I wish I had written this. In fact, I'm going to pretend that I did.
Apparently, it is vital that high school students read 70% non-fiction. This, of course, is because 69% is not enough and 71% is too much. David Coleman has reached into his extraordinarily gifted hind quarters and pulled out the perfect number. This is because students must be prepared to read things like train schedules and quarterly reports, and can't possibly do so unless we give them overt training.
I suppose that I am the exception to this rule. I can read all that stuff with no problem whatsoever, and none of my teachers showed me how. In fact, none of my
