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Sunday, June 15, 2014

6-15-14 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.:



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Video. Protest at Dyett. If CPS closes Dyett there will be no public neighborhood high school in Bronzeville



Ken Previti. My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and today’s teacher wage theft.
- Ken Previti is  a retired Illinois teacher living in Florida, activist and pension blogger at Reclaim Reform.  My grandfather, Joe Tagler, was victimized with wage theft during the Great Depression. He was a motorman (driver) of streetcars for the Chicago Surface Lines, later to be taken over by the CTA, the Chicago Transit Authority. He was hired on an hourly basis when needed; that is how it


Sunday reads.
Welcome to Rio. The myth of the bad teacher. Conjuring up memories of my father who was always there. The road to Juneteenth. I’m a nine year old who struggles with math. Rahm on pensions and property taxes. Don’t believe the hype. Harris v. Quinn. Pension fees are a profit center for money managers. Like Rauner. IF THE POLITICIANS who want to get rid of teacher tenure have their way, every schoo


John Dillon. Lisa Madigan blames the unions.
- John Dillon is a retired teacher, activist and publishes Pension Vocabulary. In the opening of A New Leaf, one of my favorite Walter Matthau films, an angry and non-repentant Matthau is castigating his financial advisor for a bounced check, one that has made the one-percenter Matthau look like “some kind of indigent.” His advisor tries cautiously to explain to Matthau that he has been overspend


6-14-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherA message to retiring teachers at the end of the school year.Some members of our Skokie Organization of Retired Educators (SORE) IEA Retired making a call on our local state representative. This is the last day of school in Park R