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Sunday, July 27, 2014

7-27-14 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.:








Pension theft proving toxic to Illinois Democrats.
Republican Bruce Rauner holds a 12 point lead over Democrat Pat Squeezy Quinn in the polls. Illinois’ Attorney General Lisa Madigan has always been thought of as unbeatable. Daughter of State Democratic Party Chairman and Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, Lisa was considered a possible challenger to Quinn or a lock on a future Senate seat. But Democrat’s assault on public employee pensions is

An ethnic slur.
A few days ago, in my continuing sadness about what is happening in Gaza, I posted on Twitter. “One Palestinian child is killed every hour in Gaza.” People all over the world have taken to the streets to call for an end to Israel’s military assault on what is the prison called Gaza. I am part of that. A blogger who writes anonymously at South Bronx Teacher (I won’t provide a link), chose to reply
Sunday reads.
Young Lords Way. Photo. El Museo del Barrio Eugene Robinson. Israel is acting as if it is free of moral responsibilities. NYSUT was against Common Core before they were for it. What happened? Connecticut’s charter school scandal. From Rethinking Schools. New Orleans after Katerina. Colonialism. Not Reform. Free Gaza. Chicago yesterday. The article originally appeared in the September 29, 1979, is


7-26-14 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherRahm Emanuel and the fugitive in Pakistan.The line in the Sun-Times story was very carefully constructed. He is not accused of any wrongdoing involving his City Hall job. He is Amer Ahmad, the fugitive money launderer and racketee