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Thursday, August 22, 2013

8-22-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:

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The in box. Jerry Mulvihill on Illinois pensions.
Fred, Two weeks ago the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Vice-President published a letter in a very local news publication in the south Chicago area called the Mt. Greenwood Express. In his letter, he thanked my local legislators for their support for voting for pension reform. My response below was printed in the August 15th issue. August 13, 2013 Dear Editor, In the August 8th edition of the Mt. Gr
Join me and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky for lunch.
  Join us for lunch with Congresswoman Schakowsky and join our new IEA Retired Chapter. Since retiring a year ago I have been actively working with other IEA-Retired members to establish a chapter in the north Chicago suburbs where we all taught. We have had several productive planning meetings. We have submitted a charter, constitution and by-laws to the IEA. We have a name: The Skokie Organizat


Sun-Times, Civic Committee and the Civic Federation: More blame the teacher pensions.
  The Civic Federation’s Larry Msall. If ever there was a time for every public and private employee to stand in defense of Illinois teacher pensions, the Sun-Times made it clear, today is the day. Teacher Pension Have to Take a Hit, the Sun-Times editorial writers declared. While many of the state pension systems are underfunded due to decades of failure to make payments by the the states feckle




Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Flaming FredThe in box. Jim Keating on Illinois penisions.My friend Jim Keating published this in the latest issue of the newsletter of the Du Page chapter of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association. In 1968 Vietnam a war correspondent saw US troops burning down a village and asked an Army major why