Tony at the Red Line Tap.
“Dragon Stout?” Sean looks up from his worn copy of Etienne de La Boétie’s Discours de la servitude volontaire. “Cold or room temperature?” sighed Sean as if I were asking him, a bartender, to actually serve me a beer. “Cold,” I responded with a certain puppy-dog look, as if he were doing me a great favor. “Sometimes I just hate my job,” Sean said. “Get another one,” chimed in Tony. “No, no. I me
Noble charter teams up with $35K tuition teacher certification mill.
Catalyst: A Relay representative said that Chicago is an “obvious” place for Relay to expand because of the demand for teachers and the support for new programs within the city’s education community. Relay plans to work exclusively with Noble Street Charter School for its first several years in operation here. If approved by the state, the school would begin by preparing a small number of teachers
Is my pension generous?
A pay raise for JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon. Priceless. Fred, Where do you think the money to pay for these very generous pension plans should come from? Do you think taxes should be raised to pay for these pension plans? Should the spending on everything else be curtailed to pay for the pension plans? We hear all these complaints but never any suggestions for alternatives. - Bob Kastigar IBEW
Next. Chicago public pensions in the cross hairs.
After the Illinois General Assembly passed Senate Bill 1, which cut public employee pensions – including the pensions of current retirees – the Democratic legislators who voted yes were flooded with angry phone calls, emails and snail mail letters. In classic cover-their-ass mode, almost all these Democrats responded by saying something along the lines of, “Well. I don’t know. We just want the
1-23-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Chicago Teachers Union on the CPS charter vote.CHICAGO – Today, Chicago Teachers Union President (CTU) Karen Lewis said the decision by the Chicago Board of Education to approve seven new charter schools is hypocritical in the face of recent school closings and only further illustrates the predatory c