Yesterday I was a union thug.
December 19, 2012
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Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Rahm: 'Wrong in my own way...he he he' March 5, 2015Protesting Rahm's closing of half the city's mental health clinics in 2011. Kinder/Gentler Rahm has a new T.V. ad.MRE on his new mea Culpa ad, "wrong in my own way" #Runoff #Rahm takes more than 10 questions, may be most ever #Runoff #Rahm— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) March 4, 2015But expensive T.V. ads are one thing. Real life is a […]
- Rahm: 'Wrong in my own way...he he he' March 5, 2015
- S.O.R.E.
- Retired delegates elected to IEA RA.- Fred Klonsky, SORE President The Illinois Education Association was founded in 1853. It became an affiliate of the National Education Association in 1857. In 1966 the NEA and the African American American Teachers Association merged. We also merged in Illinois. The NEA essentially removed administrators from leadership and became a union in 1970. Over the […]
- Retired delegates elected to IEA RA.
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- “[The Illinois Supreme] Court has rejected similar attempts to justify constitutional violations on the basis of financial necessity” March 5, 2015“…The defendants' attempt to justify the Act [Senate Bill 1] also is foreclosed by the fundamental principle that the ‘[Illinois] General Assembly cannot enact legislation that conflicts with specific provisions of the constitution, unless the constitution specifically grants the legislature that authority.’ O'Brien v. White, 219 III. 2d 86, 100 (2 […]noreply@blogger.com (Glen Brown)
- “[The Illinois Supreme] Court has rejected similar attempts to justify constitutional violations on the basis of financial necessity” March 5, 2015
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- From Glen Brown: A Review of Precedents Before the Illinois Supreme CourtFrom Glen Brown: Review of Precedents in Brief to ILSC, March 3, 2015“[The Illinois Supreme] Court has rejected similar attempts to justify constitutional violations on the basis of financial necessity”“…The defendants' attempt to justify the Act [Senate Bill 1] also is foreclosed by the fundamental principle that the ‘[Illinois] General Assembly canno […]
- From Glen Brown: A Review of Precedents Before the Illinois Supreme Court
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- Principal refuses to release child from the school to the mother until police demand.No parent should have to call the police on the principal who will not release her opt-out child from the building to the mother. No parent should suffer that. No child should endure that. All parents and children of any … Continue reading →
- Principal refuses to release child from the school to the mother until police demand.
- IEA LOCAL 28
- Chicago First Responder Pension Facts
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- Tim Furman
- Taking Five Minutes Off From PARCCHave you missed me?I'm neck deep in PARCC right now so I can't really post, but trust me, I have PARCC posts, Gulen posts, and posts about Harrison Ford stacked up-- I'm just too deep in the zone here. I've got to figure out the smartest strategy to put together testing make-up groups for the kids who missed this section or that section o […]
- Taking Five Minutes Off From PARCC
- Peoria Story
- Three candidate forums next week, more laterPEORIA, IL -- Three candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria are are scheduled for next week, for candidates in the April 7 municipal elections. The first is on March 7, for candidates for the...
- Three candidate forums next week, more later
- NYC Educator
- Weingarten Supports Hochul, Hochul Thanks Her by Supporting MoskowitzPictured at left is our good buddy Kathy Hochul. You see, while NYSUT and UFT made a big show of not supporting Cuomo, and of course failing utterly to oppose him, AFT President Randi Weingarten made robocalls for his lieutenant governor. Perhaps it was intended as some sort of balance to the general UFT/ NYSUT policy of doing nothing. Perhaps it was the bes […]
- Weingarten Supports Hochul, Hochul Thanks Her by Supporting Moskowitz
- Jersey Jazzman
- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?The resistance to the PARCC -- the new, standardized, computerized tests being administered in New Jersey beginning this month -- continues to grow. Parents, teachers, and students are rightly concerned that these tests are taking too much time, are unnecessarily complex and confusing, disadvantage students with less access to technology, and narrow the curr […]
- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?
- The Jose Vilson
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- jd2718
- 2015-2016 Sabbatical Applications on-line – due 3/17Did you know the New York City Department of Education still grants study sabbaticals? Well, they do. I took one last year. I know two people on them this year. And the application for next year has been posted, and is due in just a few weeks. Here’s the DoE’s sabbatical page (very little explanation): […]
- 2015-2016 Sabbatical Applications on-line – due 3/17
- Diane Ravitch
- A Reading List for Students Who Refuse to Take the Common Core TestsThis is an excellent reading list of books for children who are not taking the state tests. The books are mostly for students in grades 3-8. It was assembled by the parents and teachers who are members of New York State Allies for Public Education. The list probably would not pass muster with the Common […]
- A Reading List for Students Who Refuse to Take the Common Core Tests
- Ed Shyster
- What Happened to Rahm?At some point the gap between press conference and reality becomes too glaring to ignore… By Maria Moser How on earth could something as silly as neighborhood public schools bedevil Rahm Emanuel right out of his incumbent throne as mayor of Chicago? The New York Times recently asked that question, and I’m happy to provide […]
- What Happened to Rahm?
- Schooling in the Ownership Society
- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim boardLast month I wrote about an attempt in Anaheim, CA to privatize the management of another public school, using the so-called Parent Trigger law.The law, which turns parent against parent in a community, gives a temporary majority, who are willing (often cajoled) to sign a petition, the power to hand their public school over to a private company. That company […]
- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim board
Hey, it might just solve that little pension problem …
Right, Jon. And by “it” I know you mean thousands of teachers descending on Springfield on January 3rd and a union leadership that will spine up.