Lunch bets and phone calls on the pension bill.
The IEA and their partners in the We Are One coalition of state public employee unions are finally mobilizing for what may be a special session of the Illinois General Assembly. The GA leaders in Springfield have notified the representatives that they may be called back to vote on a COLA cutting pension bill. You can contact your Senate and House representatives now by going here. And We Are One
The racism of CPS. “It is highly disruptive to relocate people from their existing school to another school.”
My drawing of Tim Cawley, 2012. Lincoln elementary school sits in the middle of one of Chicago’s most expensive neighborhoods, right behind the site of the former Children’s Memorial Hospital in Lincoln Park. To solve the overcrowding of Lincoln School, the CPS board will construct an $18 million addition. When some parents and critics asked why the school’s district lines couldn’t be changed
11-21-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: The in box. Illinois’ working families have no candidate for governor.Todd Mertz is a high school teacher and IEA political activist. Friends and Colleagues It is time we have an Illinois governor stand up for public education, students, teachers, employee unions, and collective bargaining rights. If
