Tuesday, January 21, 2014

1-21-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:




Bev Johns. ISBE class size rules are dead. For now. But Koch is still spreading lies.
- Bev Johns frequently contributes information on special education issues. She is an education activist and advocate. ISBE now says the special ed class size rule is dead, but is stillspreading the absolutely false idea that the current rules somehow restrict “access to the most rigorous classes.” ISBE told the Chicago Sun-Times, “The rule process is such that these proposed rules will expire and

Breaking: ISBE pulls class size limits off their agenda again. Good work.
The Chicago Teachers Union’s Kristine Mayle is reporting that the proposal to remove special education class size limits has once again been pulled from the agenda of the Illinois State Board of Educatiion. They were planning to address the issue today. But a huge mobilization of emails and phone calls by parents, teachers and special education advocates across the state appears to have had impact


Coffee with Aaron Goldstein.
  Candidate for the 40th Illinois House seat, Aaron Goldstein. Former Machine Democratic Boss Dick Mell gave his daughter the 40th State Rep seat on Chicago’s north-west side. Machine bosses do that kind of thing. Just like Cook County Democratic Chairman Joe Berrios. He gave his daughter, Toni Berrios, the 39th district. When Dick retired from the City Council, he gave his aldermanic seat to his




1-20-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Illinois election choices.Bev Johns is a frequent contributor to this blog. She mostly keeps me and you up to date on the attempts by the ISBE to raise the class size limits that currently are in place for special education students. She also writes frequently about the election for governor of illino