Jersey Jazzman. Christie’s pension grab.
Jersey Jazzman blog: If you are at all shocked by this, you just haven’t been paying attention: In a stunning reversal, Gov. Chris Christie today announced plans to grab, over two years, $2.43 billion meant for public workers’ pensions to balance New Jersey’s ailing state budget. The plan threatens to derail one of Christie’s signature accomplishments in Trenton — a series of reforms to replenish
Chris Christie’s pension pay to play and how pension theft is a national scandal.
I have been accused of making Illinois’ pension theft too big a deal. Some have suggested that Illinois’ pension theft is just a local Illinois problem. But the scandal is a national one. And the fightback must be national too. Something to keep in mind at the upcoming NEA and AFT national meetings. Today Pando Daily’s David Sirota goes further into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s use of pen
Bev Johns. Illinois’ SB 16 threatens Special Ed funding.
- Beverley Holden Johns is a special education advocate and activist. SB 16 seems to say that education funding is only about which school districts receive money. SB 16 ignores the fact that State funds are now tied to actually doing something, to encouraging or requiring that those funds be spent for certain students or for certain activities. As amended, except for high cost students, Illinois
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.: 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 p