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Monday, April 21, 2014

4-21-14 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.:







Yes. Dan Biss is an idiot. But the problem isn’t the typo. The problem is what they did on purpose.
Twelve hours before Representative Laura Fine voted for pension theft she told our SORE Retired chapter that she hadn’t seen the bill. The pension news this weekend was about the supposed typo in Senate Bill 1. It is anticipated that thousands of tenured professors at the University of Illinois and other state schools will leave en masse this summer because of a mistake in the language of the bil





These members of the $20 million a year club paid the same Illinois state income tax rate as you did.
Because Illinois is a regressive flat tax state we all pay the same tax rate no matter how much we got paid. Today Crain’s published their list of twenty CEO’s who made $20 million this year. They paid no more of a percentage of their income in Illinois than an associate at Wal-Mart. Or you. James McNerney Jr. — $23.3 million, Boeing Co. Sandeep Mathrani — $22.1 million, General Growth Properties




4-20-14 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.: Sunday book review section. This is Not a Test.  This is Not a Test. Jose Vilson. Haymarket Books Professor Bill Schubert, who is my professional mentor, advocated the very Deweyian idea of teacher lore as a basis for educational research. Schubert’s idea is to extend to teachers “a progressive faith