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Sunday, August 10, 2014

8-10-14 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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Thoughts about tenure. Why Scalia and not teachers?
I posted a tweet earlier today. Why should Antonin Scalia get tenure and not teachers? I meant it as being ironic. But somebody tweeted me back scornfully. Probably a teacher. Tenure isn’t a job for life! Yep. I kind of know that having taught for 30 years and knowing my contract pretty well (better than any principal I had to deal with). And fighting Illinois’ Senate Bill 1, which went far in de


Sunday reads.
Chicago Teachers Union at Chicago’s Bud Billiken parade, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States. NY City looses students’ Regents exams. CPS board of ed president David Vitale’s bank benefits from charter operation. Obama is the fourth US president in a row to use the US military in Iraq. No luck so far. Southside Chicago’s Jackie Robinson Little League team heads for


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Rahm headache selfie.
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Tim Meegan for 33rd Ward Alderman.
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8-9-14 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 teacherKeeping retirement weird. Michael Mulgrew and Eric Zorn.A month after the AFT convention, Michael Mulgrew is getting a lot of attention these past few days. His threats to punch anyone in the face – and he was talking directly to