Jan Schakowsky told Rahm, “Don’t close the schools. Fill them up.”
I have already told the story of how when I retired a year ago June there was no chapter of IEA Retired in the Region I retired from. Six months ago a small group of us began working to change that situation. This afternoon, 50 retired teachers filled the banquet room of a Skokie restaurant and declared our existence. We invited our local Congresswoman to meet with us and she did, delaying a fl
Charter pension cheats face fines. If they are caught.
With all that is wrong with the growth of charter schools in Chicago, add this: They cheat on their payments to the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund. The practice is so consistent and widely practiced that the Illinois legislature was forced to pass specific legislation that increased the fines of the charter schools that fail to pay what they owe. The scandal-ridden (and I’ll be reporting more on t
9-24-13 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 impact on classrooms if special education class size limits are removed.Last Thursday the ISBE was to consider doing away with caps on the number of special eduction students that could be enrolled in a regular education classroom. This was not a vote on inclusion, which I zealously support. In sp