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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

9-11-13 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.:



The in box. TRIP and Medicare info from the IEA.
The latest on the TRIP/Medicare situation from IEA’s Will Lovett, IEA lobbyist, pension specialist, and IEA’s representative on the CMS committee that hadn’t met until August.   Teachers’ Retirement Insurance Program (TRIP) in the News Medicare Advantage Plans This document is intended to help answer questions with regard to the recent news that the State of Illinois plans to implement a Medic


Ten minute drawing. Rahm solves the school heat problem.
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Looking for Mr. de Blasio.
Hey Rahm. This is the lead from this morning’s Washington Post: NEW YORK — Democratic voters here delivered a resounding rebuke to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Tuesday, choosing from a crowded primary field his sharpest and most liberal critic as their nominee for mayor. It was just eighteen months ago the pundits and prognosticators all had their money on New York City Council Speaker, Christine Q

Reign of Error. Diane Ravtich’s documentation of bad education policy.
A group of us went to hear Dr. Diane Ravitch last night. She gave a lecture to a filled Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel at Elmhurst College. Her lecture, like her latest book Reign of Error, is a dagger in the heart of current corporate reform policies. The popularity of her previous work, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, the crowds she draws and the millions of blog hits she



9-10-13 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.: The in box. TFA Chicago plans exposed by EduShyster.com  Josh Anderson of Teach For America Chicago tours the East Chicago Lighthouse Charter School in East Chicago, Indiana. Photo: Sun-Times Blogger EduShyster.com broke the story of the Teach for America (TFA) plan to replace unionized professional t