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Monday, July 21, 2014

7-21-14 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.:



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Breaking (1:35 EDT). New London, Connecticut board cancels meeting where they were going to hire the phony Chicago “Dr.” Carter.
New London – The Board of Education has canceled its meeting previously scheduled for tonight, the school district announced. The board was expected to vote on a contract for Terrence P. Carter, the candidate chosen to be the city’s next superintendent of schools. The meeting was canceled “in order to provide Board of Education members with the opportunity to fully clarify and consider recent stat






Jonathan Pelto. The phony doctor and Connecticut Governor Malloy.
Terrence P. Carter. No doctor. - Jonathan Pelto is running for Governor of Connecticut. Proving that there is apparently no bounds to the arrogance and sense of entitlement displayed by Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his administration, the Day newspaper of New London is reporting that, “The [New London] Board of Education will go forward with its scheduled vote tonight on the contract for newl


George Schmidt. Here a doctor. There a doctor.
- George Schmidt is a retired Chicago public school teacher and publishes Substance. Here a doctor… there a doctor…. everywhere a doctor DOCTOR… Not to be missed is that “Doctor” Carter’s CPS experience was mostly as a “team leader” for AUSL. In one of the AUSL applications for state funding, they note that Carter was helping at their version of Collins High School, where he was supposedly spendi

Chicago politics. Magical thinking, perfect storms and bean bag.
All weekend I have been asked the same question. “Is Karen going to run?” I consider Karen a friend. But let us be clear. I am not on her exploratory committee, an insider or political confidant. I don’t like sitting in on strategy meetings. I’m great at knocking on doors. But my answer to those who asked was YES. Because I hope she does and believe she will. The cynics in the press either ignore
Call me Dr. Klonsky, if you please.
What is it with Chicago and Connecticut? Why do we keeping sending them mopes? First we send them Paul Vallas. Now we’ve sent them Terrence P. Carter. Carter went to Hartford after spending time in Chicago where he served as director and chief academic officer of the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) , a key part of CPS failed turnaround strategy. Carter was director and chief academic o


7-20-14 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.: Happy birthday Karen Jennings Lewis!Sunday reads.Happy birthday Karen Jennings Lewis! Charles Schwab — A core member of the ‘charter cabal’. The Joe Berrios crime family. In case you forgot, Joe is Chairman of the Chicago Democratic Party. Teacher disciplined because her students’ scores are too high.