Chicago reporters. An endangered species. Not dead yet, but on life-support.
There was a time when Chicago investigative reporters were the envy of cities across the country. This was even before Woodward and Bernstein. Now there are just a few who even deserve the title. Ben Joravsky on the corrupt use and misuse of TIF money. Sarah Karp at Catalyst. She blew the cover on the $20 million dollar no-bid principal training contract. Linda Lutton at BEZ. And a few others. Th
Is the Gang of Ten pension committee reaching agreement? Time to remind them of their legal and moral obligations.
Following the pension impasse in the last Illinois General Assembly session, Governor Squeezy, father-of-the-year Mike Madigan and Senate Democratic President John Cullerton formed a ten-member joint legislative committee to try and come up with something. Given the range of political ambitions of some of the members of the Gang of Ten, I have always been skeptical that they could reach any agreem
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.: 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
