The in box. Glen Brown in the Springfield Journal-Register.
My friend and blogger Glen Brown writes to the Springfield Journal-Register: It is a matter of public interest when current policymakers attempt to rob public employees of their Constitutionally guaranteed contracts, for punishing and victimizing public employees through a breach of contract instead of addressing the state’s inadequate revenue system and underfunding of the public pensions is a f
We Are One rejects latest pension plan.
We Are One Illinois Statement on Conference Committee Outline The statement below is attributable to the We Are One Illinois union coalition: “Published reports suggest the legislative conference committee on pension reform is ready to rehash the same unfair, unconstitutional attacks on retirement security. “Particularly harmful is the committee’s threat to delay and sharply reduce the cost-of-liv
First day of school, Chicago-style. Under guard.
H/T Matt Farmer. The Tribune photo of police escorting kids to school on Day One was taken by Chris Walker.
Will IEA and We Are One bargain or fall in line on a gubernatorial endorsement?
State Senator Kwame Raoul. There has been a lot of speculation about whether Senator Kwame Raoul will throw it in to the Democratic Party gubernatorial primary against Bill Daley and Squeezy. Rich Miller thinks Raoul could win it. Polling shows neither Daley or Quinn has a lock. Raoul is a popular politician with powerful support in Chicago’s Black community. Daley? Not so much. He’s never run
They cannot save anything when it comes to the pension debt. The bill must be paid.
Jim Broadway, Springfield observer and publisher of the authoritative Illinois School Policy Updates, takes the Illinois media to task for reprinting of the Gang of Ten’s pension nonsense without making use of a journalistic critical eye. In my opinion, the journalistic critical eye has been surgically removed from all but a handful of Illinois – and most specifically Chicago – reporters. Rumors o
8-25-13 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.: An exchange. Bonuses to principals.Fred, One of these principals is a good friend of mine. She works seven days a week to make sure that her students are successful. We both worked as teachers in CPS and we earned our Type 75s together. She was a phenomenal reading teacher too. To label all of these p