Latest News and Comment from Education

Friday, December 6, 2013

12-6-13 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.:

Running for our pensions


Update on North Carolina Moral Monday. Twelve more convictions.
  CONVICTED FOR THEIR CONVICTIONS! In Raleigh, NC, the next group of “Moral Monday” are now convicted for civil disobedience: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, Rev. Curtis Gatewood, Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, Rev. Nelson Johnson, Maria Teresa Palmer, Rev. Larry Reid, Sr., John (Bob) Zellner, Perri Morgan, O’Linda Gillis, Margaretta Belin, Dr. Timothy Tyson, and Barbara Zelter.
The in box. COLA in their stockings.
  FRED, Since I don’t have a blog, yet ,maybe you can share this idea for me. I think I have killed any chance of getting a holiday card from either DCCC or any of a myriad of Democrat groups that have contacted me since Black Tuesday. I respond to each with a message informing them that the Democrat leadership of my State has turned its back on labor and retirees. As a result

Eric Zorn on pensions is so Eric Zornish.
  Glen Brown. When it comes to lazy and dishonest local journalists, its hard to beat the Tribune’s Eric Zorn. Here’s a case in point. On his blog today Zorn addresses the constitutionality of Senate Bill 1. He makes reference to the Arizona case that is very similar to Illinois. A bill to cut public employee pension benefits was tossed out by the Arizona courts. The vast weight of case law in Il
A true story about the pension thief Senator Dan Kotowski.
  Park Ridge Democratic Senator Dan Kotowski greets Park Ridge teachers. Photo: Fred Klonsky The phone rang at about 10:30 on a Friday night. This was a couple of years ago. I was an active teacher and President of the Park Ridge Education Association. Teaching kindergarten through fifth graders when you’re in your 60s is tough work. Trust me. When Friday rolls around, I am deep into my dreams by


Breaking: La Casita “trespassers” found not-guilty.
  Sun-Times: Nine protesters charged with trespassing after they tried to save a beloved Pilsen school fieldhouse were found not guilty Friday by a Cook County judge. The nine protesters — among them community activists and Chicago Public Schools teachers — were charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass to state-supported land after they camped out in August in a failed attempt to save the Whit

Pension thieves.
  Dan Kotowski is a Democratic State Senator from the 28th District representing Park Ridge. He targets older people, retired police, fire fighters, public service workers, public school teachers and state university employees. Approach with care. He should be considered a Republican and dangerous.


Scott Walker and the Chicago Tribune. Dogs in heat.
  What could be worse than the Chicago Tribune printing the vile cartoon that depicted the public employees of the state of Illinois portrayed as dogs – dogs that had been fixed as a result of the unconstitutional pension bill passed on Tuesday and signed into law in a private ceremony by Squeezy? The Tribune tried to outdo themselves today. They published an op-ed piece by Scott Walker, Tea Part


12-5-13 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.: Pension thieves.by Fred Klonsky / 31min 12-4-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred KlonskyFred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: It’s the Democrats, stupid. And the Republicans, if they mattered.  Democrat Kelly Cassidy was