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Thursday, March 13, 2014

3-13-14 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.:






Ken Swanson. The former IEA President who was responsible for our Senate Bill 7. “Don’t ask questions. Do what your told.”
Well don’t that beat all? Former IEA President Bob Haisman has recruited another ex-IEA President to join the attack on un-named members of the blagosphere who refuse to go along quietly with the leadership’s Dillard endorsement. That  former IEA President would be Ken Swanson. I am dismayed by those loud voices in the blogosphere who would rather rant and rave about what should have been done ra

Ten minute drawing. Changing the landscape.
  And I support Aaron Goldstein in the 40th District State Representative race.  



Illinois in financial trouble. Too many old people.
  The Civic Federation’s Larry Msall Every time the Illinois General Assembly assembles, which isn’t all that often, there will likely be a story about how Larry Msall of the Civic Federation says that the state’s financial collapse is near. And that retirees are the reason. Larry Msall will inevitably be described as head of a tax watchdog group. First of all, beware of groups claiming to be wat
3-12-14 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.: In New York, what happened to mayoral control of the schools?I want an elected school board in Chicago. It is crazy that when I voted early in the current election (Watch out Machine Dems, by the way. I’m poll watching for Will Guzzardi next Tuesday) I could vote for who sits on the Water Reclamation