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Sunday, September 21, 2014

9-21-14 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.:







Sunday reads.
. Watch the People’s Climate Change march live on Democracy Now! Karen Lewis on MSNBC this morning.  You can’t feed a family with the G.D.P. Georgia legislator who wants to stop black people from voting is a StudentsFirst favorite. Test-based accountability is a failure. September 18, 2014: Mayor Emanuel announced today that the city will honor President Barack Obama by not naming a Chicago Publi

Darwin’s Mr. P would like some ukes for his kids.
About a year ago my friend, attorney and musician Matt Farmer wrote a piece for Huffington Post about Darwin Elementary School’s music teacher, Joe Panganiban. He is known as Mr. P. Darwin is my neighborhood school, three blocks away. One of my daughters, now grown up with kids of her own, went to Darwin. Although Logan Square is a quickly gentrifying neighborhood, Darwin’s student population is




9-20-14 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 teacherSwiffers. My days as a custodian.I just finished reading Ben’s Reader article about the janitorial scandal at CPS. It seems that to cut costs and make more profit, Aramark took away mops from custodians and gave them Swiffers. Mop