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Monday, January 20, 2014

1-20-14 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.:








It’s pension theft. In California the courts and the people agree.
From AFSCME: In years past, public employees paid into their pensions, confident their savings would be intact when they retired. After all, these deferred earnings were often protected by state law. However, municipalities too often reached into their employees’ retirement savings for easy cash, something we call “pension theft.” Recently, pension theft was averted in San Jose, Calif., where a ju


Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Lookin’ out for his friends.




Martin Luther King, James Baldwin and my father.
  Martin Luther King, James Baldwin and my father (sitting on Baldwin’s left in the bottom pictures) at a fundraiser for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. My father was one of the organizers of the event, held in Los Angeles around 1964.


Illinois election choices.
Bev Johns is a frequent contributor to this blog. She mostly keeps me and you up to date on the attempts by the ISBE to raise the class size limits that currently are in place for special education students. She also writes frequently about the election for governor of illinois. The primary is March 18. The general election is next November. We are allies on the class size fight. She is frustrate




1-19-14 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.: Bev Johns. We need you at the ISBE board meeting on January 22nd.- Bev Johns, Special Education advocate and activist. We need you at the ISBE Board meeting on January 22. Whether the ISBE Board eliminates special ed class size limits AND the 70/30 rule DEPENDS ON YOU. Will you offer testimony this We