Mark Stefanik: Don’t drink the kool-aid about our COLA.
From Mark Stefanik: We’re all in this together. I welcome Anonymous on COLA to your blog, Fred, because the word needs to get out. COLA is not a raise. To equivocate the two renders a fallacious argument. A raise is an increase in your wages or salary, reflecting an employer’s valuation of your worth. It is a reward; it is an incentive; it ‘raises’ your purchase power. Work better and live bett
NEA’s Van Roekel urges DOJ action on Trayvon’s murder.
A message to activists from NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. TAKE ACTION Sign the NAACP petition to the Department of Justice.CLICK HERE › Trayvon Martin was a teenage boy with a full life ahead of him. Our job as educators is to nurture our students, to give them a sense of safety and normalcy, to provide a foundation of knowledge and never-ending inspiration to each and every child. We te
We’re retired. Not dead. Bob Lyons responds.
Bob Lyons is a retired teacher an member of the Illinois Teacher Retirement System (TRS) board of trustees. Yesterday a reader questioned the defined benefit retirement system with, among other arguments, the claim that old people don’t spend as much as active working people. Lyons responds. Both the government and several universities did studies to determine the CPI differences between the elde
7-15-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Illinois just deputized 300,000 George Zimmermans. I never get used to this stuff. I’m not surprised by it. I’ve seen too much. I know too many people. Marched too often. Or maybe not enough. Too many funerals. The last couple of years I have written mainly about teaching, unions and pensions. I ge