Saturday coffee.
Atlanta is an appropriate city to hold the 2013 Representative Assembly of the National Education Association.
I was talking to a fellow delegate to the Retired Conference yesterday who thought it was wrong to hold our national meetings in so-called Right-to-Work states.
Which Georgia is.
But so is the rest of the South. And with Koch brother backing, there are a growing number of Right-to-Work laws up north as well.
If we don’t start winning some of these battles, and we adopt my union brother’s rule, we will be meeting every
Statement: Progressive reform caucus on Chicago public school budget cuts.
Alderman Ricardo Munoz, member of the Chicago City Council’s Progressive Caucus.
CHICAGO (June 27, 2013)–Chicago City Council Progressive Reform Caucus members released the following statement on Thursday in response to the news of massive cuts to Chicago Public School budgets across the city.
“Even after all the supposed cost-savings arising from the closing of 50 public schools, Chicago Public Schools are now facing the most severe budget cuts in their history. While we still do not know the full extent of these cuts, at least 850 CPS employees will lose their jobs. Schools received their new budgets this month and found
