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Thursday, January 2, 2014

1-2-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

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





The unseemly Illinois Supreme Court.
  In Illinois justice isn’t blind. It’s paid for. In 2003, (then State Senator Barack) Obama led an effort to impose new campaign fundraising rules on the state Supreme Court, but Madigan blocked the measure. Obama, as a state senator, carried legislation embraced by the American Bar Association that would have set up a pilot program for justices, allowing them to tap into $750,000 in public fund

Creeps.
First a disclaimer. In order to pay for college for my two kids, like most but the 1%, we had to borrow money. Educational Credit Management Services had a monopoly on the repayment of the debt. It’s not like a home loan where you can change who handles the mortgage. ECMS was awful. Incompetent. You couldn’t talk to anybody. We had an automatic payment system so we never missed a payment. Never we
Well, of course Arne Duncan wouldn’t want Joshua Starr as NY schools chancellor.
  Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried to pressure NY Mayor Bill De Blasio on his new school chancellor appointment. Joshua Starr was on De Blasio’s short list. Did Duncan overstep his duties in interfering in the De Blasio deliberation? Of course. Did Duncan have a good reason? Yes. Sta
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Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Ten minute drawing. Reg Weaver.by Fred Klonsky / 8min 12-31-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherFred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: 2013 Gallery..                                  by Fred Klonsky / 10min 12-30-