WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Michael Madigan

"We are telling people who have worked for governments, and who have been told for years how much their pension would be, that the number is going to change." -- Ward Room

 Geri Armitage,  Naperville North High School teacher

“The state has not paid their portion — we have paid our dues — and now they are attacking us from every which way saying it’s our fault when, in reality, this is their obligation to us.” -- Daily Eastern News

Charles Blow

As [Michelle] Alexander confirmed to me Friday: “Today there are more African-American adults under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” -- NYT

Michelle Rhee's Test Cheating 

“My speculation: They didn’t want to hear what I had to say."  -- Former D.C. Principal Adell Cothorne on Frontline 

Norm Fruchter 

So counter to the mayor and the former chancellor’s assertions, ZIP code, race or ethnicity and income still strongly determine students’ academic outcomes across the city’s classrooms. -- "Demography & Destiny: College Readiness in New York"

 Charles Krauthammer

Larger Sandy Relief Bill Was "Rape Of The Treasury" -- Huffington