Sunday, March 2, 2014

3-2-14 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.:







Raise Your Hand and More Than a Score. For parents who choose opting out.
From Raise Your Hand and More Than a Score,  Chicago parent advocacy organizations: There was considerable confusion among many principals this past week over what students who have been opted out of the ISAT should do during the test periods.  One account was that students whose parents have opted them out would be forced to sit idly in the testing room.  We are pleased to say that this is false.


Skokie Organization of Retired Educators IEA/Retired. March luncheon. WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE DO?—2014/2016 ELECTIONS
  S.O.R.E. holds a soup kitchen and serves half a cola outside Representative and pension thief Robyn Gabel’s Evanston office. WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE DO?—2014/2016 ELECTIONS JOIN SORE AS WE TACKLE THIS VITAL TOPIC…With a panel consisting of Will Lovett, IEA Lobbyist, and the League of Women Voters. Hard election choices, and a frank discussion. WHERE? Ruby Tuesday 5203 Old Orchard Road, Skokie 6007



Humans of New York. “God won’t fix it. We’ve got to fix it.”
  “Let me tell you what’s happening to me. I’m on the PTA at my child’s school, the Secondary School of Journalism in Park Slope. I’m currently advocating on behalf of my child, and seventeen other children whose parents don’t speak English. These kids are from Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, everywhere. These kids have all done very well on their Regent’s exams– I’m talking

Sunday reads.
12 Years a Slave is my pick for best picture in the Oscars tonight. There’s a Republican Party in Illinois. It’s called the Democratic Party. Rahm should stick to Polar Plunges with Jimmy Fallon and leave the schools alone. Hasn’t he learned? Every time he intervenes, he only make things worse. Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. Toni Berrios. The more we know the scarier it gets. Network for Public Educa


3-1-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherThis video of CPS Professional Development goes viral. PD on crack.Thanks to the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, this video of Chicago Public School ISAT preparation and Professional Development has gone viral. This presenter w