Monday, June 2, 2014

6-2-14 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.:



ELI Broad






UNO charter schools charged with securities fraud. All of Chicago is not surprised.
Chicago’s largest charter school operator is UNO. At the time of the fraud UNO’s boss was Juan Rangel, Rahm’s 2011 campaign chairman. To the surprise of absolutely no one, the United Neighborhood Organization, was charged today with defrauding its charter school investors. Sun-Times: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced it had charged charter school operator UNO with defraud


Representative Christian Mitchell is a part of the Eli Broad collection.
When Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke host their monthly show at the Hideout tomorrow night, Eli Broad will not be appearing on stage with them. But he will be there in spirit. State Representative Christian Mitchell will be channeling Eli Broad (rhymes with toad), a charter member of the Billionaire Boys Club, the group of philanthropists who have declared themselves school reformer, but who despise


6-1-14 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 reads.Akili Academy in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Supporting Cuomo? “Labor itself, as represented by UFT leadership, doesn’t appear to support labor.” Bob Bailey. From the days when Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Armstrong performed at Las Vegas strip hotels. But couldn’t st