Latest News and Comment from Education

Thursday, March 14, 2013

UPDATE: Late breaking news: Penny Pritzker, bah bye. And two pension bills get through the Illinois House. | Fred Klonsky

Late breaking news: Penny Pritzker, bah bye. And two pension bills get through the Illinois House. | Fred Klonsky:


The in box. Can the SOIL enact no law that compensates these accounts from the assets of the crooks that knowingly misrepresented them?

Fred,
Why, in the name of all that’s fair and lawful do Illinois politicians insist that INNOCENT retirees sacrifice what they were PROMISED by politicians, who not only and utterly failed to live up to their responsibility to fund pensions but who BROKE U.S. law by knowingly misrepresenting the state of the pensions systems to equally innocent investors.
Where is the justice that the crooks who conceived & who enacted these illegalities get to keep assets and PENSIONS that SHOULD BE transferred to the very pension accounts these crooks misrepresented?
Can the SOIL enact no law that compensates these accounts from the assets of the crooks that 

Late breaking news: Penny Pritzker, bah bye. And two pension bills get through the Illinois House.

THE POWER OF PENNY PRITZKER


The only question is what millionaire heiress will Rahm choose to replace her.
Replace who?
Why the heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, Penny Pritzker. She resigned today from the CPS school board.
Rumors are she’s going  DC to head up the Commerce Department. Given her union-busting record, I’m surprised Obama didn’t pick her to head up the Labor Department.
Anyway, bah bye.
And bad news from Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD-The Illinois House passed pension reform measures Thursday that would cap “pensionable” salaries at Social Security wages and would 



Two more entries.

MARCH 14, 2013
designall-dll
To celebrate one million site visits I am sponsoring a contest.
As of today, you have less than 22,000 site visits to go.
Submit a tweet, haiku or limerick on a topic covered by this blog.
The deadline is March 31 or the millionth visit.
The winner gets the orange t-shirt.
The decision of the judges (that’s me) is final.
From anonymous:
There was a webmaster McBarron
The site-he didn’t like sharin’
He said to Fred Klonsky
You’re out-G’Bye-Goneski
A new one Fred began a-tearin’
This from Cori:
I was once so sad
Until I was led
To a guy named Fred.
He offered hope
So I could cope
With all the mopes.
(Administrators, politicians and etc; basically all those who are not teachers and trying to tell teachers how to do their job.)
His only schema
Is to reveal our dilemma
That we need an education utopia to review all the data!