Mike Klonsky's Blog

Seated with me are my followers. Well my brother, I am home from another session of the NEA RA. This is a marathon. This goes on and on u...

Hey bro, Just a quick note during a break in the first session.  The main event today was NEA Prez Dennis Van Roekel's speech to the...

Widespread unhappiness among teachers about President Barack Obama's education policies is threatening to derail a National Education ...

Brother Fred checks in from the union's Representative Assembly in Chicago Hey bro, I'm reporting live from here at the Palmer Ho...

Mugging in Milwaukee Supt. Thornton just fired 519 city teachers. Now he is threatening massive lay-offs unless the 5,600 members of the M...

Back in March, Florida's T-Party Gov. Rick Scott , signed into law one of the first and most damaging of the current wave of anti-teache...

I'm reprinting this speech by Linda Darling-Hammond in full because -- well read it and you will know why. -- M.K. The Service of De...

It's been a rocky year for charters in Los Angeles Unified, which hosts the most charter schools of any district in the nation—183 cur...

As you probably know by now, there's no love lost between me and corporate reformers who dismiss  poverty and racism as mere "excus...

Austin Poly's first graduating class. Austin Poly H.S. junior Deandre Joyce The spring protest over the teachers’ firing was a highli...

Supporters blocking the gate. (M. Klonsky pics) After getting a call yesterday, that Mayor Emanuel was moving to arrest parents at Wh...

I must admit I liked the slightly larger following I got from posting at Huffington and I will miss the interaction I had with many new frie...

Save Our Schools [SOS] Flyers Save Our Schools [SOS] Flyer 2011 The Signs of a Movement. Fly These High By: Save Our Schools; The Moveme...

"This is what democracy looks like!"  (M. Klonsky pic) I got to march this morning, with thousands of Chicago teachers and supp...

Frustration with the administration That's what I found at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis last week. Lots of mostly-youn...

Watch Gov. Christie snort at public school mom who asks why he's cutting public school funding, "It's none of your business....

Teacher Anthony Cody Teachers and parents feel abandoned - even betrayed - by this administration. We were there for you in 2008, Presiden...

Superindent Gallo blames teachers for her mess Central Halls High School is Rhode Island was the opening salvo in corporate reformers...

"Not to quote Ronald Reagan, but I will: 'The facts are a stubborn thing,' " Emanuel said. If there was any doubt that t...

Sec. of Labor during the Clinton administration, Robert Reich , tells why the current war on workers' rights has undermined the American...