NBC’s Ward Room. Mark Anderson. Chicago is ready for progressive reform.
- This is reposted from Mark Anderson on the NBC online Ward Room. Look out, Bill de Blasio—here we come! While no one can predict the outcome of the 2015 city elections this far in advance, it seems clear something unusual is brewing in Chicago politics. For the first time in a long time, the political power structure in Chicago appears to be gaining some serious opposition. And that opposition
Bob Lyons. If they can take my pension, they can take your social security.
- Bob Lyons represents retirees on the Illinois Teacher Retirement System board of trustees. I fully expect at some time in the future that as active and retired teachers and public employees we will face a challenge from the forces that want to cut our retirement benefits where they will attempt to change or totally remove the provision in the Illinois Constitution that protects public pensions
Jersey Jazzman. The myth of the burned-out older veteran teacher. We get better with age.
- Jersey Jazzman is a teacher and education blogger. Non-teacher David Boies is absolutely convinced that we are plagued by old, bad, burned-out teachers; that’s why we need to get rid of tenure, see, and replace them with young, inexperienced, poorly-trained teachers, like the ones at TFA, the vast majority of whom will leave teaching after three years. Makes complete sense… Non-teacher Jonathan
Sun-Times’ Mark Brown. Teachers ready to teach Rahm a lesson.
- Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times. The adoring crowd that welcomed Karen Lewis to the Beverly Woods Banquet Hall on Tuesday gave the first of her public “Conversations with Karen” the feel of a Chicago Teachers Union rally. That’s probably because it was a CTU production start to finish — arranged and publicized by the union’s organizing staff in support of rank-and-file members from the neighborho
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.: 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 pr