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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

School Tech Connect: Call, Write, March

School Tech Connect: Call, Write, March

Call, Write, March

Because we're about to head into another full frontal assault on pensions here in Illinois, here's a little factoid courtesy of the actuaries at TRS.


Actually, read the whole thing.

IEA is calling for action, although I think they could have offered a little more guidance. I'm going to put TimPAC on it.

There are huge elephants in the room, and ultimately, they're caused by the massive inequalities built into our property tax-based school funding system. If you saw the piece in The Times today, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's hard to convince the public that the average pension is $43,000 when they're convinced it's $80,000.