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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - pedagogyforyourhead on Mar 14, 2011Two Teachers and a MicrophoneWe are both products of LAUSD schools and have spent our careers teaching in LAUSD schools. We love what we do, and we feel that our ...

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news.firedoglake.com - Randy Hopper, one of the 8 Republican State Senators likely to face a recall by the summer, has no shortage of problems. Worse, he can’t keep his stories straight. The Senator, who won his 2008 Sen...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Dear Friends, I write to let you know about a town hall meeting I am holding on the Federal Budget next Monday, March 21, 2011 at UWM. We know that where you put your money is where you put you...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - I really love this story. Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot in the famous “Miracle on the Hudson” landing in January 2009, has been involved in the budget protests that engulfed Madison in recent weeks. On...

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defendwisconsin.org - To the People of Wisconsin: There are times when life happens so powerfully and unexpectedly that all you can do is embrace it fully and play the role you are given to the best of your ability. Som...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Senator Alberta Darling-Those do sound like fightin’ words. | blue cheddar.Senator Alberta Darling-Those do sound like fightin’ words.BY BLUECHEDDARI’m pretty sure this is what the first 3 words ar...

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theuptake.org - Minnesota State Republican Senator Warren Limmer says Minnesota needs a photo ID voting law. As evidence, Limmer referred to a story from the 2008 election that has been debunked by politicians of ...

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host.madison.com - JOHN NICHOLS | Cap Times associate editor | jnichols@madison.com madison.com | | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:15 am Great leaders are forged by a fight. They are tried by fire. And never has...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - This email comes from a Baraboo resident, and was included in a Sauk County Democratic mailing. I post it here as it underscores what is happening across Wisconsin. Did State Senator Luther Olson...

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defendwisconsin.org - – March 16, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized Working America, an advocacy organization affiliated with the AFL-CIO that provides an outlet for non-union members to support the labor movement, has signe...

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modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/bob-bobb-terrible-poised-to-become.html"; Robert Bobb, the Emergency Financial Manager of Detroit Public Schools (DPS), has proposed turning 41...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: WI recall in full swing, Hopper's hypocrisy exposedWI recall in full swing, Hopper's hypocrisy exposedIf you’re a Wisconsin voter, you must check out this important information on ...

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defendwisconsin.org - Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed a civil complaint Wednesday alleging legislative leaders violated the state’s open meetings law last week when a special committee adopted a bill c...

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kochwatch.org - March 16, 2011- Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot in the famous "Miracle on the Hudson" landing in January 2009, has been involved in the budget protests that engulfed Madison in recent weeks.On Tuesday, h...

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huffingtonpost.com - People in Wisconsin are pulling their money out of Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank because they know it's been helping their Governor's crusade against public employees and the middle class.They might...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “This is What Democracy Looks Like” — Michigan Style | The UpTake“This is What Democracy Looks Like” — Michigan Style Over 8,000 people rallied in Lansing, Michigan, today to oppose upstart Gov. Ri...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - drstevil3 on Feb 24, 2011Teachers have become scapegoats for the current budget crises of many states in America. This video was created by teachers in defense of who we are and what we do. Please ...

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defendwisconsin.org - WHITEWATER — UW-Whitewater faculty members are urging state lawmakers to rescind collective bargaining changes and reconsider a proposal to break-off UW-Madison from the UW System. UW-W faculty ove...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News | www.kochwatch.orgTalking Points Memo: As Wisconsin Sens Head For DC, Labor Brings The War To Them *March 16, 2011-* On Wednesday evening, Republican state legislators from Wisconsin will gat...

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wagingnonviolence.org - With the billionaire Koch brothers using their muscle to back Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker both during his run for office and now as he moves to strip state workers of their right to collective barg...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: WOW rally recap: Almost too many to keep track ofWOW rally recap: Almost too many to keep track ofby Teamster PowerIf it hasn’t come to your state, it is going to be coming to your...

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theuptake.org - Officials from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), Glen Scott (Vice President) and Trevor Zimmerman (Organizer) joined the demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin, this past weekend to l...

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truth-out.org - A young protester in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 12, 2011. (Photo: TopritzBuchananHofer) I went back to Wisconsin this weekend to participate in and document what is being considered the largest d...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News | www.kochwatch.orgUPI: Thousands protest at Michigan statehouse *March 17, 2011-* Thousands of union members and other protesters crowded the Michigan statehouse Wednesday for a demonstration...

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theuptake.org - Live streaming video by Ustream Courtesy of MichaelMoore.com, here’s live footage of today’s demonstration at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing. The state’s new Governor Rick Snyder, and a far-...

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theuptake.org - “As the weeks escalated, we saw the numbers swell as people came in from outside the State of Wisconsin,” said Governor Scott Walker at an appearance in Hudson, Wis, yesterday, thereby repeating hi...

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theuptake.org - Here are video clips from Saturday’s massive rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, which as many as 150,000 people attended. Video by Sam Mayfield Wisconsin teacher Guy CostelloEducator ...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Senator Grothman may have been fearing some kind of physical attack from a protester ever since he called them “slobs” on TV and got severely scolded by a crowd at the Capitol It fin...

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defendwisconsin.org - The numbers of public employees who have retired or who have requested information on retiring are up this year in a big way. During the week following the governor’s introduction of the bill, ETF ...

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workdayminnesota.org - Minnesota lawmakers seek ban on teachers’ strikes

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: Protesters seize DC bldg during WI GOP fundraiserProtesters seize DC bldg during WI GOP fundraiserHundreds of protesters rushed passed security guards today and noisily occupied th...

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commondreams.org - Public workers in Michigan lost job security yesterday as the state House signed off on a bill that allows the governor to appoint people to take over financially troubled local governments and sch...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What the Revolution Feels Like and Looks Like in Michigan | The UpTakeWhat the Revolution Feels Like and Looks Like in MichiganMichigan musician Seth Bernard of the Earthwork Music Collective, narr...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - How odd is it that the tea party thinks tax increases on the middle class are okay during these recessionary times? You don't see them complaining in Michigan or Wisconsin do you. If fact, where th...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » WE ARE ONE Campaign to Support Embattled Workers Kicks of Solidarity Week on April 4WE ARE ONE Campaign to Support Embattled Workers Kicks of Solidarity Week on A...

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theuptake.org - Asked yesterday in Hudson, Wis., whether Minnesota’s Democratic Governor Mark Dayton ought to support Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti-public sector worker bill — b...

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thenation.com - Wisconsin GOP Senators Head to Washington to Collect Their Payoffs, er, Campaign Contributions March 16, 2011 Share | || Recommended by 0|Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, t...

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jsonline.com - March 16, 2011 10:46 a.m. | Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot in the famous "Miracle on the Hudson" landing in January 2009, has been involved in the budget protests that engulfed Madison in recent weeks. ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - stumptownfilms on Mar 8, 2011Recall Walker and Tax the Rich:Time-lapse from the Governor Walker Union Busting Bill Protests in Madison, Wisconsin2940 Photos of protesters on the square.Leave a note...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Hudson Wisconsin is becoming another flashpoint area of the state opposing Gov. Scott Walker’s dictatorial takeover of our workplace rights and government. KARE 11: "Shame," chanted protesters from...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - wisdems09 on Mar 16, 2011DC Picket#miunion #wiunion #WEAC #MadWi #Madunion #MadNation"I'm asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the State Capitol in Lansing to protest the cruel...

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host.madison.com - ED TRELEVEN | etreleven@madison.com | 608-252-6134 madison.com | | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:20 pm Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne on Wednesday charged a legislative conferenc...

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defendwisconsin.org - The undersigned faculty and staff members of the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin stand in solidarity with the Teaching Assistants’ Association. Our departmental m...

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Daily Kos: Voting now half over - still need your help

Daily Kos: Voting now half over - still need your help

Voting now half over - still need your help

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

I really want to go to Netroots Nation in Minneapolis in June. But this has been a rough year financially, as those who follow my diaries know: due to financial problems in Prince George's County Public Schools, where I teach, I am down almost $9,000 between the cut of my National Board Stipend and the four furlough days.

Thus the only way I can afford to come is if I win a Democracy for America scholarship.

That will cover my hotel and conference fees, and someone has promised me airfare.

The best way to win a scholarship is to finish in the top 3 of the first round of voting. As you can see here I am currently solidly in 2nd place.

But voting continues through March 28, and I still need every vote I can get.

Click on my picture and see who has voted for me, and why. You will see former students, parents, many people from Daily Kos.

I am especially proud of my support from the likes of Parker Palmer and Diane Ravitch.

Will you join them? Will you vote for me?

Might you ask others to join you in doing so?

I will be appreciative of all the support i can get.

Thanks.

Peace.

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UCLA student who posted anti-Asian viral rant is from Fair Oaks - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee

UCLA student who posted anti-Asian viral rant is from Fair Oaks - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee

UCLA student who posted anti-Asian viral rant is from Fair Oaks

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PUBLISHED THURSDAY, MAR. 17, 2011


The UCLA student whose anti-Asian video rant garnered millions of views online and intense backlash throughout the world is from Fair Oaks and appears to have had aspirations of creating similar videos as part of a blog.

Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan on Friday, Alexandra Wallace, 20, posted a three-minute video on YouTube in which she mocked Asian languages and expressed her annoyance with Asian students talking loudly in the library on their cell phones, including those calling Japan to check on relatives after the deadly tsunami.

After the backlash, Wallace issued an apology Monday, saying she "cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did."

However, it seems the original video was not intended to be a one-time hit.

"My daughter wants to start a blog," wrote Wallace's dad on his Facebook page.

John Wallace, a Sacramento-area retail developer, posted on Friday at 11:17 a.m.: "She's asking for domain suggestions for 'Asians on their cellphones in the library!' She's shooting videos as I write."

John Wallace also posted March 3 that his daughter was cast to be in the audience of MTV's "Jersey Sh

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UPI: Thousands protest at Michigan statehouse *March 17, 2011-* Thousands of union members and other protesters crowded the Michigan statehouse Wednesday for a demonstration against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget. The rally was noisy, but mostly peaceful, The Detroit News reported. Crowds ...
Think Progress: Property Rights And the Kochs *March 16, 2011-* If I walked over to David Koch’s lawn and tore up all the grass, he’d probably feel that the basic principles of a free market society require me to be punished. After all, that’s his property. And then there’s what happens when the ...
Washington DC Wisconsin GOP Fundraiser protest 3/16/2011 WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Press Release: USW Slams Walker’s Assault on Democracy *March 10, 2011- * Contact: Wayne Ranick (412) 562-2444 (Pittsburgh) – This statement was released this morning by the United Steelworkers (USW) on actions taken last evening by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican Senators. In a clear ...
Scholoar As Citizen: Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere? (Hint: It Didn’t Start Here) *March 15, 2011- * A Study Guide for Those Wishing to Know More After watching the sudden and impressively well-organized wave of legislation being introduced into state legislatures that all seem to be pursuing parallel goals only tangentially ...
Thom Hartmann & Rep. Jan Schakowsky - A tax on millionaires and billionaires? WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Assault on Cub Food Protesters Can you spot the thug in this video? Hint: It's not one of the union guys: WATCH ON YOUTUBE: What happens when you complain to Cub Foods about working conditions for the workers who clean the stores? Protesters and customers found out at a Cub ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Walker donor wins tax break in budget *March 6, 2011- *Things are tight at the statehouse, but not so tight that Gov. Scott Walker couldn't find room in his proposed state budget to insert a tax break for some in Wisconsin's prefab home industry. And it's a tax break that would benefit ...
Economic Policy Institute: The sad but true story of wages in America *-By Lawrence Mishel & Heidi Shierholz * *March 15, 2011- *Recent debates about whether public- or private-sector workers earn more have obscured a larger truth: all workers have suffered from decades of stagnating wages despite large gains in ...
Grist: Koch-funded group mounts cut-and-paste attack on regional climate initiatives March 16, 2011- Fresh off last year’s successful defeat of federal climate legislation in the U.S. Senate, the oil baron Koch brothers and their dirty-energy buddies are now bent on dismantling one of the nation’s last hopes for doing anything about ...
Talking Points Memo: Protests In Michigan Over 'Financial Martial Law' *March 16, 2011-* Following the pitched political battles over public employee union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and elsewhere, another state's fight over finances is heating up. In Michigan, new Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has just passed a bill ...
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A Teachable Moment: Alexandra Wallace and Beau Sia On Asians in the Library (Of the World)

A Teachable Moment: Alexandra Wallace and Beau Sia On Asians in the Library (Of the World)

A Teachable Moment: Alexandra Wallace and Beau Sia On Asians in the Library (Of the World)

by CYNTHIA on MARCH 17, 2011

A young woman who is a student at UCLA decided to put her feelings about her fellow students, ones who are Asian Pacific American in particular, on a video and post it to Youtube. Her name is Alexandra Wallace.

It sparked remarkable response online. A good deal of it redoubled the

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Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools | Thoughts on Public Education

Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools | Thoughts on Public Education
Robles-Wong lawyers reframe case - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess Having had their complaints rejected the first time, two groups of plaintiffs are hoping an Alameda County Superior Court judge will look more kindly on revised arguments to have the state’s method and levels of public school funding ruled ...
Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools - by Caroline Grannan (This article was written in collaboration with Sharon Higgins.) Simplistic ideas may look appealing at first glance, but they rarely solve complex problems. Too often they have the potential to make things worse. That’s true of California’s so-called ...
Update: Dream Act on the move - by Kathryn Baron The latest version of the California Dream Act passed the state Assembly’s Higher Education Committee on Tuesday. AB 130 and 131 would allow some undocumented students at the state’s public colleges and universities to apply for institutional financial ...
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PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA PRESS RELEASE ON “PARENT TRIGGER” LEGISLATION

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA PRESS RELEASE ON “PARENT TRIGGER” LEGISLATION

PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA PRESS RELEASE ON “PARENT TRIGGER” LEGISLATION

FROM LEONIE HAIMSON | PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA.ORG | HTTP://BIT.LY/GHLX2T

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2011

Parents Across America: We oppose Parent Trigger laws

Reform should rely on proven solutions that involve parents from the ground up and improve rather than privatize schools

With California’s so-called Parent Empowerment Act drawing national media attention as a school reform panacea, and similar laws being discussed in other states including New Jersey, Colorado, and elsewhere, the new national organization Parents Across America (PAA) warns that the law fails to promote positive solutions, is subject to abuse, and threatens to harm school communities.

“This law is likely to cause more problems than it solves,” PAA said in a position statement. (See attached pdf. )

The Parent Empowerment Act took effect in California in 2010, creating a process called the Parent Trigger, in which a majority of parents at a low-performing school can petition to demand one of a narrow set of options, including firing all or some of the staff, takeover by a charter operator, or closing the school.

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Praising Teachers While Bashing Them | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Praising Teachers While Bashing Them | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Praising Teachers While Bashing Them

by larrycuban

Joel Klein, ex-Chancellor of New York City Schools, wrote about teachers in a recent op-ed.

“Teaching is incredibly hard, especially when dealing with children in high-poverty communities who come to school with enormous challenges. Many teachers work long hours, staying at school past 6 p.m., and then working at home grading papers and preparing lessons. Some teachers get outstanding results, even with our most challenged students. These are America’s heroes, and they should be recognized as such. Sadly, they aren’t.

“On the other hand, there are also many teachers who work by the clock – they show up a minute before 8:30 and leave a minute after 3; when in school, they do the barest minimum. They get dreadful results with students and, if you spend time in their classrooms, as I have over the past eight years, it’s painfully obvious that they belong in another line of work.”

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NYC Educator: Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences Are Coming, But Then Again, So Is Summer

NYC Educator: Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences Are Coming, But Then Again, So Is Summer

Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences Are Coming, But Then Again, So Is Summer

by Miss Eyre
Ah, parent-teacher conferences. The day on which you get together with the parents of your students to duke it out over whose fault it is that darling Johnny is failing. (Just kidding! Obviously it's yours.)

If it helps any of you psych yourselves up for the event, maybe my own philosophy on the spring PTCs will help you; namely, that the spring PTCs are The Beginning of the End. The evening PTC day is one of the longest of the year for many of us, but once it's over, it's downhill from here.

My cynical start to this particular blog post notwithstanding, I have some pro tips for PTCs in this
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Something to Fight For - Bridging Differences - Education Week

Something to Fight For - Bridging Differences - Education Week

Something to Fight For

by Deborah Meier

Dear Diane,

It has been reported that 56 percent of black Chicagoans (over the age of 16) are not employed, 21 percent are officially unemployed, and a third live in poverty. These figures are double and triple those for whites. So says my friend Don Rose (based on data from Megan Cottrel of The Chicago Reporter in a piece titled "Second City or Dead Last"). But more and more members of the lower-middle-class white community are moving in this direction, too. In fact, it's even affecting—less dramatically—the solid middle class (like my own children and grandchildren). Isn't it time to look beyond schools to blame our plight?

But it's considered "soft racism" to mention these factors as relevant to the test-score gap, the graduation-rate gaps, etc. We are expected to believe that young people growing up in such intensely poor communities will not be damaged by it unless we have "low school expectations"—plus lazy, overpaid, unionized teachers!

But then there are the tax cuts for millionaires, not to mention all the "minor" tax advantages we provide the rich

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Cullerton and Quinn and GOP conspire to kill state pensions. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Cullerton and Quinn and GOP conspire to kill state pensions. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Cullerton and Quinn and GOP conspire to kill state pensions.

by Fred Klonsky

From the Wall Street Journal:

Lawmakers in Illinois say they may try to fix the state’s ailing pension system by asking current workers to pay more into the plan, though the approach faces substantial legal and political obstacles.

The lawmakers are also entertaining the politically difficult idea of applying broader pension changes made this year for newly hired employees to current

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