Michael the magician.
He waved his wand and turned SB2404 into SB1.
Reports Rich Miller at Capitalfax:
House Speaker Michael Madigan gutted Senate President John Cullerton’s pension reform bill today and replaced the language with an amendment which appears to
Ten minute drawing. I wasn’t going to just follow orders.
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Latest adventures in Bizarro World.
I have my Medicare card. My IEA Retired membership card. My reduced fare CTA pass should arrive any day now.
Since I have been working with my trainer, Mike, my internal balance is vastly improved.
But it is the outside world that feels out of kilter.
As I have pointed out, Illinois politics has been and remains a Bizarro World.
It is where the Republicans vote against diminishing public pensions, but where the leaders of the Democratic Party-controlled state government and the union leadership argue over how.
The in box. Karen Lewis on the Five-Year plan.
Karen Lewis:
“Our schools communities do not lack inspiration, they lack revenue. It doesn’t matter what new initiatives CPS concocts from year to year if it has no way to appropriately fund them (i.e., the longer school day). Chicago has to break its addiction to tax breaks and find ways to generate revenue for our schools. This so-called five-year plan is once again done in the silo of CPS without any stakeholders at the table. It is still widely driven by testing and a complete lack of democracy.
“It is amazing that CPS’s first impulse, no matter who heads it, is towards an autocratic, top-down approach that people who actually work with kids are expected to implement
Karen Lewis:
“It is amazing that CPS’s first impulse, no matter who heads it, is towards an autocratic, top-down approach that people who actually work with kids are expected to implement
A word to readers.
Counting page views and site visits only matters to me as a measure of whether this blog is providing a service, is interesting to read and look at, is entertaining and motivates action. We are pleased that many teachers and activists want to comment, share information and have told us that they enjoy reading Tony at the Red Line Tap.You seem to appreciate that I am including my art, personal essays and photographs.
At the beginning of April we hit the million site visits mark.
We have had 150,000 more site visits since then.
In May, during the debate over Illinois pension reform, we had 75,000 site visits, averaging 2,300 a day, seven days a week.
Along with the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, a few other bloggers and activists we were alone in voicing
At the beginning of April we hit the million site visits mark.
We have had 150,000 more site visits since then.
In May, during the debate over Illinois pension reform, we had 75,000 site visits, averaging 2,300 a day, seven days a week.
Along with the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, a few other bloggers and activists we were alone in voicing