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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

5-20-14 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.:



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Ten minute drawing. Four things that will make you gay.
Think Progress: Common Core may not be a well-intentioned set of improved educational standards, as supporters would have you believe, but instead a trojan horse designed to turn every schoolchild in Florida, if not America, gay. This ominous warning came at an anti-Common Core event in March courtesy of Florida State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R). Speaking at the “Operation Education Conference” in
Where is the all-powerful Mike Madigan now?
Back on December 3rd Michael Madigan had no problem getting the votes he needed to pass pension theft. Senate Bill 1 had little support among Republicans because they thought the larceny didn’t go far enough. It actually left some coins in the jar. They wanted it all. But Madigan’s Democratic Caucus backed him up.  Many admitted that they knew it was morally wrong and probably unconstitutional. M
John Dillon. Teacher life after Senate Bill 7 and PERA.
- John Dillon is a retired teacher, activist and blogger at Pension Vocabulary. A Dinner with an active colleague in May, 2014: Sorry, you guys, but while you have been fighting for us in pensions, they’ve come under the cracks in the door. You missed what happened since you left, since the Performance Reform Evaluation Act. The classes you remember no longer exist. The teachers you remember no l


5-19-14 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.: Drugs in the war on poor kids.“For now, we’re left with one of the ironies of income inequality: a rare instance of poor children getting more of something than they need.” More than 10,000 American children ages 2 and 3 are being medicated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They are