Mulgrew’s Common Core threats break into the main stream press. The Daily News.
I first mentioned UFT President Michael Mulgrew’s punch you in the face speech last month at the time of the Common Core debate at the AFT convention in LA. NYC Educator has been writing and Tweeting about it for days. Norm Scott’s EdNotes posted the video today. Finally it has broken into the New York media with a story in the Daily News. Michael Mulgrew is hardcore about Common Core. The fiery
Hinsdale board filing police reports over Facebook *likes* is confirmed.
Claudia Manley, Hinsdale board member and wife of a Republican committeeman. She thought she was threatened by an internet glitch? Today’s Chicago Tribune confirms what was reported here yesterday; that a Hinsdale board filed a police report, claiming that teachers who *liked* the teacher Facebook page were threatening them with axes. A member of the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 boar
Hinsdale’s Richard Skoda. A documented history of education disruption.
Hi Fred, You could publish a related story on current board president Richard Skoda’s documented history of organizing his group to disrupt D86 board meetings and intimidate board members and others. This led to real violence on one occasion, as I am about to describe,. In fall 2012, when Skoda was a board member but not yet president, he sent a mass email calling on his followers to attend boar
The UFT’s Michael Mulgrew gets punchy. But only towards union members in the hall.
I know that there are not thousands of people who, during the AFT national convention in Los Angeles, sat in front of their computers watching the live link to the debate on Common Core. Raise your hands if you were one of us. That’s what I thought. I watched it, even though the outcome was never in doubt. I watched the profoundly professional presentations by Chicago teachers like Michelle Gunde
Guest drawing. Jackson Potter. For Dr. William Watkins.
Chicago Teachers Union staff coordinator sent this drawing today. Dr. Watkins died suddenly Tuesday night. A professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Chicago, Bill was a loved and highly regarded professor, mentor to many CTU members and fighters for Social Justice. He will be missed.
8-6-14 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.: At the Hideout. A sinking ship and a teacher in charge.The after-party outside the Hideout last night. The First Tuesday at a north side dive bar called The Hideout is becoming a Chicago phenomenon. Last night the place was so packed that folks unable to get in ended up sitting in the front patio hol