Adam Heenan. Common Core threatens good teaching.
- Adam Heenan is a social studies teacher at Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago. I teach Financial Literacy as a semester-long social studies course in a Chicago public high school. This quarter we focused on professional skills. My students must find living arrangements on a fixed salary, then explain their plan to the class. Students must calculate their biweekly net pay (based on last q
100% of Hinsdale teachers vote for strike authorization.
Yesterday I reported on the growing divide between the teachers and parents of Hinsdale on the one side and the District 86 school board on the other. The Chicago suburban high school district has a long history of providing quality schools in a collaborative environment. Some teachers report to me that the election of Tea Party candidates to the school board has created a toxic atmosphere.
Greg Hinz on the SEIU 73 Rahm contribution.
Crain’s Chicago Business political columnist Greg Hinz today reports on the $25,000 contribution to Rahm Emanuel’s campaign by SEIU Local 73 as if it were breaking news. It isn’t. I did a cartoon about it days ago. Click on image to make it larger. Hinz made it sounds as if this contribution and tacit endorsement of Rahm by the renegade SEIU 73 President Christine Boardman was a secret. While $25
Dancing with Christian Mitchell.
We headed over to the Hideout last night for Joravsky and Dumke Second Tuesdays. The panelists were my rep-elect Will Guzzardi, AFSCME lobbyist Adrienne Alexander and pension thief State Rep Christian Mitchell. Mitchell was why I wanted to go. I think we should confront these guys every time they show their faces. Which reminds me. Our retired SORE members will be at a Town Hall with State Reps R
6-3-14 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.: Strike vote. Things are heating up in suburban Hinsdale. A sign of things to come in Chicago suburbs?It’s not that it never happens. But it is rare for a strike vote by teachers before the old contract has expired. That is the case in suburban Hinsdale District 86, where the school board appears to be