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Friday, June 6, 2014

6-6-14 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.:









Rahm stole this school from the community.
H/T Rousemary Vega.






Massachusetts’ Madeloni is unapologetically adversarial.
  Barbara Madeloni was just elected President of the Massachusetts teachers union. This story appeared in the Boston Globe. Don’t make the mistake of talking about “teacher training” to Barbara Madeloni. “Oh, please don’t use the word training,” she chided a reporter. “We educate teachers. We don’t train them. We train dogs. And I love dogs.” Beacon Hill better get used to that sharply pointed, c


Hinsdale board member: Our salary and benefits should be lower than other districts.
As I have been reporting, Hinsdale High School District teachers gave their union leadership full backing last week in the union’s bargaining with their board. With nearly every member voting, a strike authorization vote received 100% of the members support. I can see why. The current board is now controlled by ideologues who are willing to sacrifice Hinsdale’s quality public schools on the altar
Rauner’s pension pay-to-play in Pennsylvania.
Bruce Rauner is a non-partisan pension hustler. This morning the Chicago Tribune reports that the Republican gubernatorial candidate gave $300,000 to Pennsylvania Govenor Ed Rendell with the hope of getting pension investment business for his firm GTCR. Rendell, also a former Philadelphia mayor, said it was during his tenure at the DNC that he came to know Rauner, whom he described as having been


6-5-14 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.: George Schmidt. SEIU members were told by their union they had to cross CTU picket lines.- George Schmidt publishes Substance News. It’s actually worse about the 2012 strike. SEIU members were told by their union they had to cross CTU picket lines. As you remember, CPS opened more than 100 schools, cl