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Friday, March 7, 2014

3-7-14 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.:



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Toni Berrios. This is what she calls being responsive to constituents.
Running for her political life, Toni Berrios is trying to to recreate herself into a progressive. But with a 12 year record to run on, that is hard to do. Twelve years of pension underfunding. Twelve years of voting for pension theft. Twelve years of kowtowing to her patrons, Mike Madigan and Big Daddy Berrios. Back in November my wife Anne wrote Representative concerning SB1342. It was a bill th






DFER want to kick Chicago’s ass.
If you don’t know what DFER is, don’t feel bad. They hide in the shadows, known only to a deep-pocketed charter promoters, bought-off politicians who are recipients of their largesse and education geeks. Like me. A few years back DFER Director Joe Williams wrote that he would kick my ass for writing mean things about them. But he didn’t. Or couldn’t. Or something. Anyway, DFER stand for Democrats


Lee Talley. Bruce Rahmer’s tax return.
- Lee Talley is a retired Illinois school teacher. Fred, After watching the March 5th watching the debate for Republican governor I noticed that candidate Bruce Rauner was stumbling over the question posed about his daughter getting preferential treatment for admittance to Walter Payton Preparatory High School. He stated that the family moved downtown to his wife could be closer to her non-profit
3-6-14 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.: 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 tap