Mike Klonsky's Blog

Gassing the water protectors “JB personally and through his businesses and trusts has both active and passive investments in many diffe...

HILLARY'S IN TOWN TODAY   raising lots of campaign dough . I would have attended this morning's brunch at the Gold Coast home of Tan...

A single picture tells the story The latest UNO scandal represents a potential disaster for the thousands of mainly Latino students and ...

Parents tell IL State Board to suspend implementation of the PARCC test for the 2014-2015 school year. Wendy Katten, Raise Your Hand Coa...

Yes, I'm being facetious, but stay with me for a minute anyway.. The IL gov's race was basically bought by billionaire Bruce Ra...

No car today. I had to cab it home from basketball practice this morning. Yes, I know I said I retired from coaching last year. I lied. Bu...

If Gov. Quinn is still waiting for cavalry from inner-city Chicago to arrive and pull out the election for him, he's going to be wait...

Rich Miller A quick note to Bruce Rauner: The next time you try to claim that Gov. Pat Quinn is "personally" under federal inv...

You've really got to go back to Bloomberg's narrow escape in his 2009 victory in the NY mayor's race over relative unknown, Bil...

On Sept. 4th, the State Supreme Court will hear the case of 7,000 teachers fired after Hurricane Katrina.  "Katrina accomplished i...

Workers need more than a $1.75 raise. Mimicking former MSNBC great Keith Olbermann , I'm willing to go out on a limb a say that bil...

French Economist Thomas Piketty Economist Thomas Piketty There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save th...

IEA members pick their poison Stunning that Democrats like Gov. Quinn now feel it necessary to stand in front of 1,200 educators at the...

Captain Clarion Tweet: "When does that dammed trickle down start, already?" ANON "In theory...

CREEPY! Rauner Dems Interesting to see who showed up Thursday for Rauner's photo shoot of “Democrats and Independents for Rauner” ...

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 the...

“Vallas ushered in an era of massive expansion of standardized testing; the privatization of public schools through outsourcing and charter...

Gov. Quinn must think we are all idiots. Yesterday he described his newly-named running mate Paul Vallas as, a white knight — a schoo...

Vallas (right) was beaten by Rod Blagojevich (left) in '02.  Fran Spielman Sources said Vallas alienated teachers unions by pri...

Look out. Vallas is back in town.  We tried to finish him off back in 2001 but... No sooner had I finished posting about how the Work...