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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

8-20-14 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.:



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Hinsdale. Teachers union isn’t signing on the dotted line.
- The Doings Clarendon Hills. The Hinsdale High School Teachers Association is not painting as rosy a picture of contract negotiations with the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board as the board president did Monday. “There was dramatically less progress on Monday than in previous sessions,” association spokesman Michael Palmquist said Tuesday. Board President Richard Skoda said representatives

TMD. Randi’s trust problem.




AFT’s Weingarten promises a million bucks for Karen Lewis’ run for Mayor.
  Sun-Times: The head of the American Federation of Teachers says the national union is ready to spend $1 million to help Karen Lewis unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel if the Chicago Teachers Union president decides to run. “I did say privately to Karen and at our executive council meeting that if Karen was to run, we would be all in,” AFT leader Randi Weingarten told the Chicago Sun-Times in an intervie




8-19-14 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.: Karen Lewis. Rahm’s CPS hiring stunt.- Karen Lewis is President of the Chicago Teachers Union. (Sun-Times) The City of Chicago is gearing up to enforce its Chicago Public Schools preference policy, which would give CPS graduates preferential standing among other firefighter applicants, providing an un