Christian Mitchell. $100,000 from anti-public school group.
Subject: NEWS RELEASE: Rep. Christian Mitchell’s Anti-Public Education Platform Rep. Christian Mitchell feted by right-wing, anti-public education groups while parents, students and teachers fought abusive school closings CHICAGO – While thousands of parents across Chicago were fighting school closing, reports indicate deep ties between Rep. Christian Mitchell (26th District) and groups committed
The state union leadership supported Dillard. Throwing good money after bad.
In the weeks and days since the IEA, IFT (minus the CTU) and AFSCME endorsed Kirk Dillard for Governor, Bruce Rauner’s lead has increased by 4% according to just released polls. Dillard stands at 14%. Unless there is video tape of Bruce Rahmer actually stabbing a nursing home patient to death (which I wouldn’t rule out completely), he will be the Republican candidate in the general election. It ju
Dissolving the Illinois charter commission.
Greg Richmond, ALEC’s man on the Illiinois Charter Commission. Several years ago the Illinois General Assembly established the Illinois Charter Commission. The commission has the power to over-rule local communities and school district boards of education in awarding charters to the growing number of privately operated but publicly financed schools. A requirement to sit on the board is that you
Illinois is not too broke to give Exelon a handout.
Illinois is broke cry the corporate Civic Committee CEO’s when they dine over their three martini lunches. Illinois is broke explains Ty Fahner as he secretly meets with the bond rating agencies that then go and lower that state and city ratings, putting pressure on the legislature to cut promised public employee pensions. Which is then what the legislature does, as in Senate Bill 1. But when a
TRS’s missing pension checks.
I received word yesterday that there might be as many as 5,000 retired members of the Teacher Retirement System who did not receive their March 1st check. On Friday all TRS members were notified that because March 1st fell on a Saturday, our checks would not be posted to our accounts until the 3rd if we used automatic electronic deposit. Of the over 100,000 retirees, roughly 5,000 still receive th
3-5-14 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.: Tim Furman’s Red AlertThe Chicago Teachers Union did NOT endorse Kirk Dillard.From the Chicago Teachers Union: CHICAGO—While the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) has endorsed Republican gubernatorial hopeful Sen. Kirk Dillard in the upcoming primary, the Chicago Teachers Union Local 1 (CTU) has n