Retired teachers are not just about pensions. We had a lively charter discussion.
This blogger, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and S.O.R.E. organizer, Harriet Sheeley. We often discuss politics at our Skokie Organization of Retired Educatators (S.O.R.E.) luncheons. We are a chapter of the Illinois Education Association’s Retired section. I’m president of our local chapter, but that’s not the reason we talk politics so much. And it’s not just talk about the politics of pensions.
Bev Johns. NCLB required all students to be proficient ontate tests by 2014.
- Bev Johns is a Special Education advocate and activist for has contributed frequently to this blog. NCLB required all students to be proficient on State tests by 2014. Failure of the public schools to reach that goal has been widely viewed as the failure of public education, requiring movement to charter schools and even increasing the talk of vouchers in the name of choice. Failure of the publi
A new blog from Bloomberg, Broad and Walton. Did somebody ask for this?
Peter Cunningham left the Duncan Department of Education and has launched an education blog, Education Post. There is room on the internet for lots of blogs on education. But did anybody really ask for this one? If parents could ask their leaders for one thing on education this school year, it would be this: stop playing politics with education and work on results. We don’t have time for name-cal
Local teachers are holding Democrats’ feet to the fire on pension theft.
Teachers confronted Representative Michelle Mussman just prior to her vote for pension theft. On the eve of the vote on pension theft, I made the rounds to the district offices of many north suburban state representatives and state senators. 56th District Democrat Michelle Mussman was one of them. I joined a crowd of about 100 teachers and other state employees, most of whom had voted for her. Mu
9-2-14 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.: I’m always optimistic.National Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia and me at the NEA RA in Denver. The new school year has started. The third without me. How have they survived? For me, the start of a new school year was a moment for optimism. It is like the optimism I felt leaving this year’s