The in box. Retired teacher, retired mayor, retired police commissioner: “I object. I object. I object.”
Dear Governor Quinn, Senator Cunningham, Representative Burke, I hear that your response to those union leaders who have objected to the deplorable treatment retirees are receiving at your hands has been that you, “…have not heard from any of them.” Really? Really? It should come as no surprise to any of you elected “leaders” not to have heard from us as you have given us no information about wha
Who wants to get rid of the University of Illinois Labor School and why?
U of I Labor Professor Bob Bruno. Seventy years ago the Illinois legislature created the Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations. The school includes the Labor Education Program that trains union people and a Center for Human Resources Management. The school offers masters and doctoral degrees and joint degrees with the College of Law and the College of Business. Somebody is not happ
I’m not worried about the government shutdown or default. I’m worried about poverty. I may not be a Nobel Prize winner in economics. But he is.
Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize for economics this year. Just how will I suffer in the U.S. goes into default tomorrow? Or in a couple of months? Brian Williams keeps telling me how serious this is. In the mean while I get emails from retired teachers around the state trying to figure out how they will pay for their medical bills if the current plan to hand over their non-Medicare covered supp
10-15-13 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.: Why doesn’t this feel empowering?CPS had to readjust its numbers. They had to explain why only 60% of students from the 50 schools they closed showed up at the so-called Welcoming Schools. They had predicted 80%. Catalyst reports: Also, the new numbers show that the district still doesn’t know where a