Mike Klonsky's Blog

Sarah Palin with Gen. Tata I first wrote about Gen. Anthony J. Tata back in 2012. Back then it was considered hip for some reason, to pu...

Okay, now that I'm done FBing about #convfefe, I can get down to more serious business -- revolution . It seems a revolution has taken...

Standing Rock On this Thanksgiving Day, I'm thankful to be standing among so many good people willing to resist the wave of Trumpism...

Ivanka Trump visits Eva Moskowitz' Success Academy Charter School.  It looks like they've dropped their phony rhetoric about cha...

D.O.E.-- The Education Pentagon in D.C. Posting from D.C. -- Remember back in 2010 when Michelle Rhee was ruling the roost in D...

F. Klonsky pic I can think of worse things than being stuck down here in Sarasota while the east coast is buried in snow. I'm flyin...

President Robert Kelly of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 announces the organization's endorsement of Jesus "Chuy...

Former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, along with another ex-White House aide, Ben LaBolt, supports former CNN anchor Camp...

In yesterday's post on de Blasio's appointment of  Carmen Fariña   as schools chancellor, I implied that pressure from Arne Duncan ...

Seattle teachers protest Rhee-forms. They're still cleaning up the debris from Michelle Rhee's signature reform in D.C.. Her to...

Like President Obama, who campaigned as a critic of the war in Iraq but then continued many of George W. Bush’s military policies once in o...

Susan Ohanian.org John Merrow The erasures stayed buried for years. The official who had spotted the problem and urged Rhee to invest...

Indicted! When the Atlanta test cheating scandal broke two years ago, Arne Duncan pooh-poohed it. He started out saying how "stunn...

Michael Madigan "We are telling people who have worked for governments, and who have been told for years how much their pension wo...

Duncan remains "We came out of the gates flying" in the first term, he said, and he plans to "replicate that as much as w...

Election Results "Mitt Romney is the president of white male America." -- Maureen Dowd, NYT   Rehabilitating Michelle Rhee  ...

On Sunday afternoon, nearly 1,000 people, practically all of them African American, answered Ed Gardner’s call to rally at 95th and Wester...

Sara Palin and Gen. Tata hawking their books.  If there was ever a guy you would never want to run your public schools, it was Brigadier...

Rauner's revolution In any case, Rauner sees the strike as the start of "a multi-year revolution." His reactionary ...

Back in 2009 in D.C., the union's acceptance of the   IMPACT  Evaluation System marked the start of what Randi Weingarten now refers ...