Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:
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Keeping retirement weird. The color line.
On our road trip we stopped at the boyhood home of W.E.B. du Bois. Naturally. There was no parking space in front of our house when we got home yesterday afternoon. We had to unload the car from down the block. It was a small price to pay for the last two weeks and a road trip that took us to Block Island and time with the kids and grand kids, in-laws and friends, several ferry crossings, swimmi
Frustrated? No. We are people with a vision of a city that works for its people.
Our friends came for Bagels with Karen. Representative-elect Will Guzzardi did the introduction. About a month ago Anne and I, my brother Mike and sister-in-law Susan invited our friends to have Bagels with Karen Lewis at their house in Logan Square. Among those who came was our new 39th House District Representative-elect, Will Guzzardi. In fact, Will gave a warm introduction to the President o
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New London school board takes back its offer to “Dr.” Terrence Carter.
Attorney Anthony Shannon, center, and Attorney Christopher Engler, right, of Shipman and Goodwin in Hartford carry boxes with copies of the report on the investigation of Terrence Carter as they and New London Board of Education members Rob Funk, left, and Sylvia Potter, back center, and the rest of the board leave the lecture hall to go upstairs for an executive session at the Science and Techno
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Why you should care about Hinsdale. Staff jumping a sinking ship? This is what happens when anti-public school activists win control of a public school board.
Hinsdale District 86 school board president Richard Skoda. Tea Party followers got elected with a low turnout to the Hinsdale District 86 board with an agenda of driving out experienced teachers. And it looks like that they are making headway. On the one hand, the Hinsdale teachers union is winning wide-spread support from a community that is concerned about the possibility of a decline in the q
Rauner uses armed investigators to scare off third-party voters. This is what Rauner’s democracy looks like.
Bruce Rauner and Republican Rod Gidwitz hunting Libertarians? Sun-Times’ Dan Mihalopoulos: Rauner’s campaign tried to distance itself when I first tried to ask about the Libertarian ballot-access case last week. “I believe that is a state party issue,” said Schrimpf, the spokesman. Illinois Republican Party officials readily confirmed hiring the lawyer for the petition challenge, John Fogarty, an
Kristin Crowell. Beating Rahm requires deep organizing.
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Chris Christie comes to Chicago to campaign for Bruce Rauner. Although Rauner needs no lessons from Christie on how to reward political pals with pension funds.
Graphic: International Business Times New Jersey’s joke of a governor is in Chicago to campaign for the joke of a gubernatorial candidate, Bruce Rauner. What is happening to those Illinois public employees who are counting on their pension systems for retirement income is no laughing matter Pension sleuth David Sirota is writing about the latest scandal involving the New Jersey governor and his s
“Driving Value within a Changing Network of Schools through Learning and Development: The Use of a 360° Feedback Tool To Drive Change and Bring Value in Public Education.”
Terrence Carter (right) and his attorney. We are on our way from our family’s August vacation rental in Rhode Island to a stop-over with more family on Long Island. This required getting on the ferry from New London, Connecticut to Orient Point, New York. New London. The home of a story I have been covering involving The phony doctor Terrence P. Carter. Carter, whose education leadership backgrou
Election year CPS graduation rates.
CPS President Vitale, CEO Byrd-Bennett and Rahm do the counting. Anne and I are still on the road. Still I want to wish my Park Ridge District 64 colleagues all the best as they start the new school year with students arriving in their classrooms today. It is only two years since I retired, but it is a little odd when I think about the last grade of kindergarten students that I taught on now ente
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John Dillon. The state’s legal defense of pension theft? Think self-defense or insanity.
-John Dillon is a blogger at Pension Vocabulary, retired teacher and pension activist. On August 21st, legal counsel representing ISEA, RSEA, Heaton & Harrison filed a joint motion in Sangamon County for a judgment on the pleadings as to the affirmative defense, or in the alternative, to strike the affirmative defense. An affirmative defense, in this case the summoning of “reserved sovereign p
Walter Esler. Thousands of Illinois public workers see rollback of health costs because of Kanerva.
- Walter Esler is a member of AFSCME Retired and an activist. Thousands of retired Illinois teachers, civil servants, and university staff will soon be seeing their health coverage deductions cut in half. Illinois Department of Central Management Services(CMS) has rescinded an emergency rule doubling retiree health coverage premiums. The rollback came after SUAA Director Linda Brooks contacted Sta
Walter Esler. Thousands of Illinois public workers see rollback of health costs because of Kanerva.
- Walter Esler is a member of AFSCME Retired and an activist. Thousands of retired Illinois teachers, civil servants, and university staff will soon be seeing their health coverage deductions cut in half. Illinois Department of Central Management Services(CMS) has rescinded an emergency rule doubling retiree health coverage premiums. The rollback came after SUAA Director Linda Brooks contacted Sta
