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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

9-3-13 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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  Photo: Springfield Journal-Register Springfield Journal-Register: While the IEA is focused on improving education for students in Illinois, they also must fight the perception that their overriding concern is the well being of teachers. One of Klickna’s goals as president is to change how the general public perceives her organization. “If you say ‘association,’ everyone thinks you’re great. If

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Who will the IEA take to the dance? Or will we dance alone?
  AFSCME President Lee Saunders. “Quinn won’t forget who took him to the dance,” IEA President Cinda Klickna reportedly told a reader of this blog. That was a couple of years ago. More recently AFSCME President Lee Saunders was quoted as saying this about Pat Quinn and other turncoat Democrats. I am sick and tired of the fair-weather Democrats. They date us, take us to the prom, marry us, and the

This morning Philadelphia teachers are working without a contract.
  Philly teachers rally in 2011. This morning Philadelphia teachers are working even though their contract expired this weekend. That’s not what I said yesterday. There was a flurry of Facebook reports that the Philly teachers had voted to strike. I did a quick Google search. It appeared to be true. It was true. Ten years ago. I should have noticed that the ABC story I posted mentioned a Philly M



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.: You can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the unionYou can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the union.Happy Labor Day, the US Congress’ alternative to May Day. The politicians believed that May Day, which originated here in Chicago, had too rough and militant a content to it. And it had too many Reds involved. H