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Sunday, June 29, 2014

6-29-14 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.:






Monday. The SCOTUS and Harris v. Quinn.
We finished up the NEA Retired Conference this afternoon. The three-day meeting addressed some issues that are of specific concern to retirees. Like Social Security offsets in states like Illinois. But make no mistake about the interest that retired teachers have in current education and union issues. The NEA Representative Assembly opens officially on Tuesday. But the most important vote of the


Sunday reads.
At the NEA RA with the next president of the NEA, Lily Eskelsen Garcia. It’s the final day of the NEA Retired Conference, Happy birthday to my Skokie Organization of Retired Educators (IEA-R) member and fellow Illinois delegate Bob Kaplan. Nine thousand delegates arrive in Denver for NEA Representative Assembly. Odessa Jackson, a retired Chesterfield County school teacher, has been selected to re


6-28-14 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 teacherKeeping retirement weird. “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” said Frederick Douglass.As I stepped out of the elevator I ran into an old friend who I hadn’t seen since the RA last year in Atlanta. After a warm embrace we he