Mike Klonsky's Blog

Our living room was packed on a summer day in 2014 for our Bagels With Karen fundraiser. As everyone has heard by now, former CTU Pres.  Kar...

Karen Lewis with the Klonsky Bros. on Hitting Left, March 3, 2017.  Brother Fred and I are taking the day off. Retirement has exhausted ...

@realamberheard Karen Lewis For those of you who may not know, I submitted my retirement papers in Friday. Not only did I retire from...

Rahm uses Chief Ed Officer Janice Jackson to push his latest school closing scheme.  Rahm's latest scheme calls for the closing of a...

Marines Martinez from Chicago ACTS Local 4343 tells media that ASPIRA charter teachers are willing to go on strike to “take a stand for ...

CTU Pres. Karen Lewis will be our in-studio guest this morning on Hitting Left. Be sure and tune-in at 11 a.m. (CST) to Lumpen Radio, WL...

The real question now is whether or not CPS can withstand the latest three-pronged assault it faces from Operation TRAUMPMA That's th...

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be im...

CTU members Maria Cosme, left, and Nancy Serrano count ballots  (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune)   CTU Pres. Karen Jennings Lewis  on...

Rahm to big Chicago banksters -- Don't worry, you'll be first in line to get paid.  Rahm to teachers and staff after laying of...

Parents and students sit-in at Ald. Burnett's office to protest $60M selective-enrollment school. Parent organizer Sherise McDaniel ...

You've heard of the Godfather. Well for me, Rahm Emanuel is the Blog Fodder . He's the gift that keeps on giving for us bloggers...

Ed writer deluxe, Valerie Strauss at ( Donald Trump's fave ) Washington Post asks, "Is the nation’s third-largest school distri...

Karen Lewis not only was re-elected by acclaim by CTU's House of Delegates, she out-polls the mayor 3-1. Congratulations to CTU Pres...

CTU Pres. Karen Lewis "This is not a moment," CTU President Karen Lewis said to a raucous rally in the campus commons at Ch...

 Oscar DePriest  teachers load up the picket signs. After stopping at Dunkin's for a bucket of coffee to bring with us, Susan an...

Pres. Barack Obama U.S. policy toward Cuba hasn’t worked “since I was born,” Obama said in an interview with CNN en Espanol last wee...

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on t...

A SmallTalk Salute  goes out to  Karen Lewis and the CTU for forcing Rahm/Claypool's hand and finally getting a serious contract offer...

Rahm at press conference: "I agree with Karen Lewis..." Karen Lewis "It's just that simple, it's not rocket s...