California public pension funds to hedge fund managers: “Drop dead.”
Deal Book: The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension fund, will eliminate all of its hedge fund investments over the next year on concerns that investments are too complicated and expensive. The pension fund, which oversees $300 billion, said on Monday that it would liquidate its positions in 24 hedge funds and six hedge fund-of-funds — investments that tota
Chicago’s Marshall High School and Zombie education reform.
The firing (Barbara Byrd-Bennett calls it reassignment) of Marshall principal Angel Johnson is a metaphor for much of what passes as school reform. Stuff happens and nobody is responsible. Corporate reform has become a zombie. It is dead. Yet it lives on. Angel Johnson by all accounts a personable and capable principal, had to be fired because that’s what the School Improvement Grant requires. Ev
Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) of Illinois opposes SB16.
For immediate release For more information: Bev Johns-217-473-1790 LDA OF ILLINOIS OPPOSES SENATE BILL 16 Senate Bill 16 would completely change how Illinois funds local schools. The bill has passed the Illinois State Senate, and is now being considered in closed meetings by the top Democratic members of the Illinois House of Representatives. The Board of the Learning Disabilities Association (LD
S.O.R.E. field trip. Town Hall with Senators Biss and Manar on school funding, Special Needs.
Illinois State Senators Dan Biss and Andy Manar. Members of our retired IEA chapter are concerned about our pensions. Not just our pensions. We are concerned about the preservation of public schools. That means we are concerned about funding. In Illinois, there is a lot to be concerned about. Illinois ranks at the bottom when it comes to state funding for public education. The Illinois Constituti
9-15-14 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.: Neil Steinberg compares opposition to Israeli policies and campus rape.“Jeez. Condemning Israel is a classic American college phenomenon, like binge drinking and date rape,” writes the Sun-Times Neil Steinberg. This is so wrong on so many levels. But so typical of what passes for Chicago’s current mai