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Cinda issues an invitation. But the party has already taken place. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Cinda issues an invitation. But the party has already taken place. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

Cinda issues an invitation. But the party has already taken place.

IEA President Klickna meets with PREA members at Lobby Day in Springfield last Spring.

I received an email from IEA President Cinda Klickna today. Not a personal one. It went to all members I assume.

In the subject box: “Prizes! Conference! PERA!”

Well, who wouldn’t rush to open that email?

We already got the prize. That was handed to us two years ago when IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin was appointed to head the team that wrote the Illinois grant for Race to the Top money. One of the requirements that Arne Duncan and Audrey’s old boss, Duncan’s Senior Advisor Jo Anderson, demanded as a part of any