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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

5-21-14 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.:








Democratic Party State Representative Scott Drury’s slippery definition of a promise.
Glen Brown posts about Representative Scott Drury.  



Even Eric Zorn admits Lisa Madigan’s police powers argument is nonsense. Though he still drinks Civic Committee Kool-Aid.
Responding to the suits by the IEA, IRTA, IFT and others representing teachers and public employees, Attorney General Lisa Madigan admitted that pension theft violates the pension protection clause of the Illinois Constitution. The state has a right, Speaker Madigan’s daughter argues, to ignore the Constitutional protections because the financial situation is dire, ignoring the state’s tax breaks
“Twelve Months Later: The Impact of School Closings in Chicago” examines myriad of CPS’s Broken Promises.
CHICAGO—The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released today a report on the state of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) one year after the Board of Education (BOE) voted to close 49 elementary schools and one high school program, the largest, one-time school closing action in U.S. history and a decision made in the wake of massive opposition and protests throughout the city of Chicago. The study, titled “T


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.: 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 warn