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Friday, June 20, 2014

6-20-14 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.:







Jonathan Pelto. Beware of the “don’t let us become Wisconsin” phony pro-labor candidates.
- Jonathan Pelto is running for Governor of Connecticut. To the unions, public employees, and the voters of Connecticut – Let’s take a moment to set the record straight… While preventing me from even speaking to the union members responsible for endorsing candidates, the leadership of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and AFT-CT were among those claiming that voters must choose Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy






Is the Mayor running scared. Or is enough never enough?
Becky Carroll of Chicago Forward Super-PAC and former CPS lying liar. So far Rahm Emanuel’s main mayoral opposition is a progressive woman with good ideas and little money in the bank. That would be Amara Enyia. While others with more traditional clout have hinted at a run, nobody else is stepping up. Yet Rahm appears to be running scared. He has 7 million dollars in his campaign coffers. And he

Secret Rahm memo to Clinton: Step up attack on immigrants. Be Nixon on crime.
The twelve-year limit on secrecy in the Clinton White House is over. Now we get to see what Rahm told Clinton in the privacy of the Oval Office. It’s not the image he probably wants to have out there leading up to the 2015 election for Chicago Mayor. But here it is. In a Nov. 20, 1996, memo from Emanuel to Clinton after he won his second term. “This is great,” Clinton wrote on the memo Emanuel ca
1.9 million visitors.
Last night we received our 1.9 millionth site visitor. We should hit two million by the middle of August. I’m glad this blog is helpful to those who are teaching, organizing and making things change for the better.


6-19-14 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.: My suggestion is to call Dyett High School an “incubator.”The three-day community vigil at Dyett High School. For the past couple of days parents and members of the Bronzeville community have been holding a vigil at the neighborhood’s last open admission public high school. That would be Walter H. Dye