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April 28, 2012
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Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- WEEKEND QUOTABLES"Safe passage"? Yale kids will walk past this abandoned and boarded up building at 73rd & Princeton on way to their "receiving" school. | Jessica Koscielniak ~ Sun-TimesRev. Marshall Hatch, in front of Tilton “That was a cartel, right on the side of the school. . . . This is where the folks know how to find them.” -- Sun-TimesAngele […]
- WEEKEND QUOTABLES
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- Our Indifference about "Pension Reform" or Breaking our Contract We define indifference as a lack of interest, an unimportance or insensibility. As the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel states: “[It] is more dangerous than anger and hatred.” We might add that indifference courts a complicit relationship with political and social injustices and that, conversely, these injustices owe their success and power to indifferen […]
- Our Indifference about "Pension Reform" or Breaking our Contract
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404Let’s Make Deal: SB2404Quite honestly, I was at first befuddled when it came to choices as a retiree looking at SB2404. I’m not good at choices. I lose at Blackjack without fail.Could be worse. I could be an active teacher looking at SB2404. Thank goodness I’m not an active anymore. The spreadsheet on the IEA Fact Sheet reads like a graduate level test […]
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404
- NYC Educator
- Chancellor, Bloomberg-StyleI'm surprised at how many people are shocked at NYC Schools Chancellor Walcott's sales presentation to principals last Saturday. It's encouraging, of course, that the principals gave him such a cool reception. After a decade of crap that never works, it's good to see that even administrators are not buying it. Bloggers I read regularly ar […]
- Chancellor, Bloomberg-Style
- CPS Chatter
- Giving Rahm a Week to RememberThis week has been insane. In my personal life, in my social life, and in my career I am facing a ridiculous number of challenges this week, but there’s also some real coming out of it. I am reminded of A Christmas Carol, where a miserly old skinflint who cares more about money than about […]
- Giving Rahm a Week to Remember
- Jersey Jazzman
- Latest "Chiefs For Change" Fail: Bowen in ME #2I just posted about Maine "Chief For Change," Stephen Bowen, and how he's had to back off on plans - written by his patron, Jeb! Bush - to fast-track for-profit virtual charter schools into the state. Before we move on to another state and another CFC Fail, however, let's take a moment to enjoy the twisted logic of Commissioner Bowen: Sec […]
- Latest "Chiefs For Change" Fail: Bowen in ME #2
- TuttleSVC
- What's the Rush?Erik Robelen:Rhode Island may prove to be the first state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards issued in final form last month. The state board of education is expected to vote on the standards at its next meeting, on May 23.I waste too much time on standards in subjects I actually know something about, so I'll keep my mouth shut other than to […]
- What's the Rush?
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- SB2404: SummarySB2404: Summary Tagged: betrayal, government, IEA, Illinois, lies, pensions, retirement
- SB2404: Summary
- Roger Sanders
- https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=tshttps://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=ts
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- IEA LOCAL 28
- jd2718
- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFTNotes by Donald March, chapter leader of Christopher Columbus HS Bronx Mayoral Forum. May 8, 2013. Christine Quinn, Bill DeBlasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu As has been the case at these forums or late, Christine Quinn arrives ahead of the pack and is allowed to speak and take questions first. She is a rather forceful […]
- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFT
- Diane Ravitch
- Chicago Public Schools Sued for Discriminating On Grounds of Race and DisabilityThe Edwin F. Mandela Legal Clinic of the University of Chicago and a major law firm sued the Chicago Public Schools in federal court on behalf of students with disabilities and African American students. The closing of their schools, the lawsuit claims, has a damaging and disparate impact on these students. In one lawsuit, the […]
- Chicago Public Schools Sued for Discriminating On Grounds of Race and Disability
