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Sunday, October 20, 2013

10-20-13 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.:




The Biss Exchange. Jerry Mulvihill: “22 years and nothing has been done about revenue.”
Jerry Mulvihill, Park Ridge District 64 teacher and union activist, was at our gathering at Senator Dan Biss’ Skokie office on Friday. Biss is a leading Illinois Senate voice for pension benefit cuts. Retirees from our Skokie Organization of Retired Educators (S.O.R.E, a chapter of Illinois Education Association - Retired wanted to meet with Biss before the Fall veto session which takes place this

Sunday reads.
  Progressive Democrat Will Guzzardi (in the striped sweater) meets with Klonsky family friends and neighbors. Will is running for the Illinois House from Logan Square and the northwest side. Pension deal remains elusive. Management insists that management can run the trains on time during a strike. As a result, two workman are killed. From the Classroom Sooth. Street level view of Common Core. R

The in box. “So much for public input.”
Fred, It seems at the stakkeholders meeting on Thursday, Oct. 17 (at least for representatives of retirees in the CIP program, though I’m sure there was a similar meeting for “stakeholders” for TRIP), that SUAA bought into the everything is going to be fine, now that information has been released.  As with the IEA whose letter indicates that simply releasing information (which CMS said they were



10-19-13 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.: Fred Klonsky | Daily postsKeeping retirement weird.  Senator Dan Biss talks reform to teachers and retirees.    I get up to let Ulysses out at around 6:30 AM. Then I feed him. It was still dark when I did that this morning. It may have been dark at 6:30 yesterday morning. But  didn’t notice it. Shorte