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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

8-13-14 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.:






TMD. Time-shares.




Breaking. Support striking Galesburg, Illinois teachers.
- For immediate release.  

Breaking. The dirt in Karen Lewis’ closet.
Anne said to me, “One advantage that Karen Lewis has over Rahm is that there are no skeletons in her closet. No back room deals in Springfield or La Salle Street. I mean she was a chemistry teacher at Lane Tech and a local union president. Clean as a whistle.” “Ha,” I laughed. “They’re all crooked. You watch. Something will come out.“ And this morning, the intrepid investigative team at the Chicag

TMD. Quinn runs against public employees.
James Keating and Betty Deitz. Debts and regrets.
- This article by retired teacher James Keating and Betty Deitz also appears in the West Lake Shore Illinois Retired Teachers Association August newsletter. The state is in debt and our state leaders have declared a financial emergency. To solve this debt problem they want the state’s financial debt burden to fall upon us and are asking the courts to give them the constitutional right to do so. T
Why you should care about Hinsdale. Part two.
If you regularly read this blog you know about what is going on in Hinsdale, District 86.  HInsdale is a comfortable Chicago suburban town with a high school district that has always had a good reputation as a place to teach and send your children. Then in the last election, a small turnout of voters led to the election of some radical anti-union board members which gave them a majority of seats


8-12-14 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.: Carpe diem.. My Facebook and Twitter pages are full of comments about the suicide of Robin Williams. It’s not surprising. He was a big star, a celebrity, who has spanned several generations of TV watchers and movie goers. In 1989 I was still a new teacher. It was four years after A Nation at Risk repo