NEA RA. A 45 minute break.
It was a long morning of speeches. There were speeches from candidates for a bunch of NEA executive offices, including President. And Dennis Van Roekel gave his farewell address as he enters the relatively large club of former NEA Presidents. He gave pretty much the same speech – although a lot longer – that he gave to the Retired conference that was – it seems like – a month ago. Although it was
Pension news while I was in the convention hall…
While I am participating and covering the NEA RA, Glen, John and Ken are posting about today’s Illinois Supreme Court decision upholding the pension protection clause and ruling against the imposition of state police powers to grab our pensions. Glen Brown: “The Illinois Supreme Court ruled [6 - 1] today that subsidized health care premiums for retired state employees are protected under the Il
Bob Lyons. Pension theft in Illinois almost certainly doomed.
- Bob Lyons represents retirees on the TRS board of trustees. THURSDAY, July 3, 2014 PENSION REFORM LAWS ALMOST CERTAINLY DOOMED HEALTH INSURANCE RULING IS CRYSTAL CLEAR In a sweeping 6-1 decision, the Illinois Supreme Court today struck down an attempt to force government retirees to pay more for their subsidized state health insurance, and in the process made it abundantly clear that the new pen
Denver Thursday forecast. Sunny with intermittent blogging.
In a break between the morning Illinois caucus and the opening of the RA in an hour. Good news from back home today. The Illinois Supremes ruled 6-1 in a case involving public employee health care. They rejected the two key arguments that the state is making in the Senate Bill 1 case. They ruled against the state on both the pension protection clause of the Illinois Constitution and the state’s
NEA RA. NBI on Common Core.
This NBI from the NEA Board of Directors will be voted on at the RA later this week. NEW BUSINESS ITEM C In recognition of supporting quality teaching, as well as learning over testing, NEA will work with state affiliates in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards or other state standards to ensure that the standards are properly implemented and that educators are empowered to lea
7-2-14 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.: The view from the IEA Retired section in the back of the hall at the first Illinois caucus session yesterday.NEA RA. NBI A. Toxic testing.New Business A will be presented to the RA Thursday. NEW BUSINESS ITEM A NEA CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOXIC TESTING NEA will conduct a comprehensive campaign to end the h