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Monday, September 16, 2013

9-16-13 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 schools’ supt. wants to lift the cap on Special Ed students in a classroom. A real bad idea.
To those who can, please attend the ISBE hearing on Thursday, September 19th, 8 AM (sign in to comment) at the Marriott in Bloomington-Normal . If not, send an e-mail  to the ISEBE–best if you give reasons  or examples  why you OPPOSE the lifting of SpEd class size restrictions. IEA website:  The Illinois State Board of Education will be voting Thursday on a proposal that would eliminate all speci

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Resignations abound. And parents on the east side have some questions for the Mayor.
  Rahm went to the east side of Chicago yesterday to announce that he’s building a new public school.  Parents and teachers at the existing over-crowded Gallistel Language Academy had some questions for the Mayor following the photo op. But the Mayor was out the door in a flash. “He wasn’t here to answer our questions, he left before ask the things we wanted to ask,” said teacher Andrea Porth. Ga


The in box. The pension committee Gang of Ten is offering a plan with slim chance of passing.
  Republican, pension bomber and ALEC member, Representative Darlene Senger.  Rich Miller in the Southtown: Several members of the Illinois General Assembly’s special pension reform committee told me last week that they believed a final proposal would emerge within the next week to 10 days. The conference committee has been working since June on a solution to the state’s nearly $100 billion long-
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.: Rainy Sunday reads.  Mourners outside funeral services for Carol Robertson, one of four girls (also killed were Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair and Addie Mae Collins) who died in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Fifty years ago this week. I guess the NY Post doesn’t like Diane Ravitch. They