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9-1-13 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.:

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Two libraries.

Guest blog. “Nothing is written.”
By Mark Stefanik Accept Common Core.  Forget Collective Bargaining for compensation and benefits. Accept new teacher evaluations which don’t evaluate for good teaching.  Forget tenure.   Accept impoverished retirements.  Forget pension theft. WHY? Because it is coming.  Because that’s reality, Jack. Or so our union leadership would have us believe. They would have us believe we are impotent in th

Labor Day Weekend reads.
  Why is Teach For America sending its teachers on Israel junkets? What would Muhammad do? A rebutall to Obama’s war argument. The continuing chaos in Rahm’s Chicago. They call us Chiraq. Rahm’s De Paul basketball arena? I swear I will never step foot in the joint. You make that pledge too. Labor Day: Workers are striking even if they don’t have a union. Seattle teachers reach a tentative agreeme


8-31-13 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.: Corporate Ed Reform, Really ?Saturday coffee.  NY’s Bill de Blasio and his wife. Union support him. Except for the teachers union. After a day in which the temperature rose to the upper 90s, a summer storm full of thunder, lightening, wind and hail swept through Chicago early last night, sending poor