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Saturday, July 9, 2011

What is worse than the crime? The cover-up. « Fred Klonsky's blog

What is worse than the crime? The cover-up. « Fred Klonsky's blog

What is worse than the crime? The cover-up.

Yesterday I posted the hour long video of Jonah Edelman’s presentation at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

It was fascinating to watch as Edelman frankly, proudly, described how his group, Stand For Children, outfoxed the CTU, IFT and the IEA into supporting Senate Bill 7. The bill, Edelman openly admits, was designed to fool the union leadership into giving up the right of Chicago teachers to strike.

IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin comes out looking bad. Edelman describes her as “pragmatic” and