Heading for the NEA RA. Thinking back to past ones and the last Obama endorsement.
A Thank You at the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly. I fly to Denver on Friday to attend the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly. I’m a an IEA Retired Delegate, elected statewide to represent the state’s 10,000 members. I’ll be posting about it as I get ready to go. And even more when I get there. As I always have. Today my thoughts go back to the IEA RA in Chicago in 2011, t
The return of Peter Rabbit English. Who pays? We pay ‘em now or we pay ‘em later.
A few days ago, when I wrote about charters and Wall Street, reader Bill asked me to explain it in Peter Rabbit English. I said that “Wall Street investors are more than willing to buy bonds issued by large-scale charter organizations – the larger the better. They provide a good return on investment. And charter operators are more than willing to borrow money because it is the taxpayer who will p
Detroit Free Press investigation is damning of public schools. No, wait. I got that wrong.
The Detroit Free Press has released a study of Michigan’s public schools. The results are damning. Michigan public schools are spending a billion dollars a year with little transparency to the taxpayer who foots the bill. Some Michigan public schools do well. But those that don’t are allowed to stay open year after year. Most of the worst ranked schools have been allowed to stay open ten years or
6-23-14 Fred All Week 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.: UNO fraud hasn’t slowed Wall Street charter investors.Crain’s graphic. The charges against UNO of fraud by the Security Exchange Commission has had little impact on charter school investments by Wall Street. Crain’s is reporting today that “the charter school bond market is back.” Finance Authority Ch