Sunday, May 4, 2014

5-4-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

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



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Rauner’s tip-line is a fraud and will Rauner fear push our union leaders into the arms of Michael Madigan.
It turns out that Bruce Rauner’s tip-line is a fraud. Like everything else about the guy. The caucus, as I like to call John, Glen, Ken and myself, heard about Rauner’s campaign ploy of setting up a state corruption tip-line phone number. He meant it as a dig at Squeezy. But we thought it would be good to encourage people to call that number to report on the biggest state-sponsored theft of them


Todd Mertz. Billionaires Persuade Pension Reform Judges. What?
- Todd Mertz is a teacher and IEA political activist. Now this is the craziest thing I have heard.  In fact, I would have bet this wasn’t even legal. Many teachers and public employees have been worried about their fate in the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court Justices because they believe Michael Madigan has several of the Supreme Court Justices in his back pocket. But the craziness gets crazie


Sunday reads.
This week teachers at Brooklyn’s International High School at Prospect Heights said no to pointless and testing. Veteran New York teacher and union Chapter leader Arthur Goldstein explains why he is against the contract to Diane Ravitch who wrote that it was a good deal. The Sunday New York Times Magazine money issue is all about income inequality. The ad on the first page is for the Baccarat Hot
5-3-14 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 teacherSupport the people who serve the NEA staff.- From UniteHere Local 23. Seasons Culinary, the food service company that operates the cafeteria in the National Education Association headquarters building in Washington DC, is refusing