Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Illinois Review is also notorious for this. As a former municipal candidate, Republican Precinct Committeeman and lifelong Republican and conservative I decided not support Rauner in his bid for Government and posted my analysis and reasons why. The posts were continually deleted and then my IP blocked.
LOL–There’s nothing to be gained from deleting comments with opposing views. Anti-union comments will be subjected to a lot of angry rebuttals for the enjoyment of the union types. Some of the union types are so deluded that opposing views aren’t going to sway them. I’m amazed how many K-12 teachers out there think that someday budget cuts will be restored and that unfunded pensions are a phantom number that has no meaning.
Fred Klonsky is no radical. He is merely a hypocritical cog in the institutional machine from which he benefited yet claims to be separate from. He complains about tax fairness yet pays no state income taxes on his spiked pension. He complains about corporate America yet defends unions who are just as corporate in nature and just as politically wealthy. He talks civil rights but resides in a Chicago neighborhood with a minimal African-American population and taught at a rich, mostly white suburban school district. And he gets all strung out on the evils of Wall Street yet his entire… Read more »
I stand corrected.
I read the opposite views to keep current on their perspectives. Maybe we’re better off just letting some of these groups just congregate in their own echo chambers and see how far off the rails they go. Maybe we should copy their comments and show middle of the road taxpayers what the Capital Fax folks think about taxpayer dollars. Turn the light on and turn the volume up.
Amen. Rich is a XXXX, public union stooge. Idiots like Oswego Willy that spend their whole day commenting on his site are so biased and dumb it makes my head hurt. I will not even go there anymore. Willy also likes to say he is not part of a public union, which is of course a lie. Either it is a lie, or he is just mentally retarded. Most likely both actually.
Now Adam, that’s one that went just bit too far so I took out one of your adjectives.
🙂 Sorry.
I love reading the comments at the Capitol Fax! The steady stream of thoughts from Public Sector union members, throughout the workday, exuding the benefits of more revenues needed for pensions. Also, I wish the Inspector General would conduct an audit of how many hours a day that state resources are being used to comment on that site.
This is a great website for IL employees salaries. Need to got to FY ‘16 for annual salary:
https://ledger.illinoiscomptroller.com/salary-database/employee-salary-database/
The reason I don’t have comments on my blog is because I didn’t want to deal with the inevitable spam & stalkers (had one on a prior blog). Unlike you, I don’t have an issue with blogs/news sites that delete whatever they want to. It’s their place. If they don’t want to get any contradicting comments, that will become clear quite quickly. If they don’t want to hear disconfirming info, won’t it be quite the surprise when things turn against them (cf: the Cook County Soda Tax….more in a post at my blog tomorrow). I am hopeful for the Janus… Read more »
Use Disqus.com, that’s what I use on my blog.