8-27-13 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.:

They call the most dangerous streets in Chicago, Safe Passage routes. They call the schools that are farthest away from home, Welcoming Schools. But they call emergency plans in case a gunman enters a Chicago school building, “None of your business.”

John Kugler is on the safety committee of the Chicago teachers union. He’s been asking for the state-required emergency plans from CPS since last Winter. CPS won’t show them. They won’t give them to a local reporter for NBC either. Even after a Freedom of Information Act request. Why? Because they never filed them. Or didn’t create them as the law required. For the past six years. They call the mo

by Fred Klonsky / 0min 

Godwin’s law, paranoia and the political misuse of language.

Here is Godwin’s Law. Godwin’s law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage. It states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. “In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—rega

by Fred Klonsky / 2h 

The progressive South rises again.

  North Carolina NAACP legal chair Al McSurely, Rev. William Barber and the Klonsky brothers. It wasn’t their plan, but the Republicans and Tea Party folks in North Carolina have created a progressive, multi-racial movement that has rocked the state over the past few months. The Moral Monday Movement. “It’s a big tent,” Al McSurely told us. “The center pole is anti-racism. But includes the issues

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8-26-13 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.: Life in Rahm’s Chicago. First day of school.by Fred Klonsky / 1min mark as read  //  saveThey cannot save anything when it comes to the pension debt. The bill must be paid.Jim Broadway, Springfield observer and publisher of the authoritative Illinois School Policy Updates, takes the Illinois media to

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