You may not like Lisa and Michael Madigan. But neither do they.
It turns out that we are not the only ones who don’t like the Madigan clan. Neither do they. Reports Greg Hinz in today’s Crains: What’s the truth? It’s possible there was an understanding. She thought he was going to go and didn’t discover the truth until it was too late. More likely, I think, Ms. Madigan intended to run anyhow, until the Metra mess and the related failure of lawmakers to pass
Chicago is a union town. ALEC can’t hide.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDuJbH2OKQ&feature=player_embedded] . The American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization responsible for literally writing some of the most anti-worker, anti-democratic legislation for state legislators to introduce, tried to hold their 40th anniversary meeting quietly in Chicago this week. But Chicago is a union town. And union members were in
The Real News. ALEC turns 40. Chicago protesters will throw them a party in the streets.
Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy. Protest today, Thursday. Noon. The Palmer House. 15 E. Washington. Chicago.
The in box. Arthur Goldstein on the Common Core.
Arthur Goldstein teaches English as a Second Language at Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens. My friend NY teacher Arthur Goldstein sent me this article in today’s Daily News. I’m trying to imagine what my principal would tell me if I proposed giving tests that caused more than half of my kids to fail. My principal is a big guy, and there are a lot of windows in his office. I
8-7-13 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 will pay an extra $130 million in interest on a bond issue this week. Thank the Civic Committee.. By his own admission, Civic Committee head Ty Fahner met with the bond rating agencies and told them to lower Illinois’ ratings. They did what he asked. As the question and the answer in the vide