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Friday, February 3, 2012

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition.


Juan Williams thinks Rahm and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie belong on the honor roll of education reformers.
And I guess so do I.
Or maybe not the honor roll.
More like the dishonor roll.
Williams and Rahm appear together on an anti-union, anti-public school video put out by the right-wing Education Action Group, home of Ben Velderman and Kyle Olson (my stalkers).


Are sick days a “perk” or deferred compensation.

In order to build public opposition to public employee pensions, politicians both Republicans and Democrats, are waging a war of words and redefinitions.
This morning’s Chicago Sun-Times is running a headline about accumulated unused sick days.
They claim it is a unearned perk.
For teachers in Chicago and around the state, the ability to accumulate unused sick days amounts to deferred