In the News ~ Nov. 2 - Illinois Education Association

School budget group wants to ask: Cut pay or lay off teachers?
Carolyn Sloan of the Illinois Education Association said the Springfield Education Association will file an unfair labor practices complaint if the question ??

City of Springfield rejects school board request on TIF funds
Springfield schools probably won?t see additional money from a proposed tax increment finance district along Dirksen Parkway for more than 20 years. Mayor Mike Houston, city economic development director Mike Farmer and Ward 3 Ald. Doris Turner met last week with School Board President Susan White and board member Judy Johnson last week to discuss the matter?

Illinois State Board of Education Holds Public Meeting at Southland College Prep Charter High School
Members of the Illinois State Board of Education interacted with administrators, faculty and students of Southland College Prep Charter High School on Tuesday at a regularly scheduled public meeting at the new three-year-old public charter secondary school that serves nine south suburban communities.????

Guest Column: Rockford?s new school leadership: It?s all good
It?s all good! That?s the reaction I have been receiving from a myriad of constituents and stakeholders since the announcement on the day before Halloween that the School Board had come to a consensus on its selection of Ehren Jarrett as our next superintendent of schools.??

CPS wants more time to compile school closing list? ? a ?rigorous, transparent and open dialogue with school communities over the next several months to help the district make more informed decisions around school actions and better invest resources that will help kids access a high-quality education ??

Authorities: Award-winning CPS teacher accused of molestation
In a grand ceremony in front of the future first lady, veteran Chicago teacher Harold ?Jerry? Mash was lauded for tirelessly working to help his students ? a stark contrast to how he was labeled in an Ohio courtroom three decades earlier. On that drizzly day back in 1976, Mash was found guilty of one of the cardinal sins of the classroom: abuse of a child. He lost his job.

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Political News?

Government unions and the downfall of Illinois? Chicago Tribune Editorial ? The bosses of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Service Employees International Union; and the Illinois Federation of Teachers/Illinois Education Association are in virtually every legislative meeting, every budget meeting, every policy meeting in Springfield. They take their taxpayer-funded, government-collected union dues and funnel them by the tens of millions to politicians in both political parties. They use their vast membership to supply patronage workers by the thousands for political campaigns throughout the state.?

Hey, Bruce, the unions didn?t underfund the system?The Capitol Fax Blog (blog) ? The states with huge funding gaps have ?behaved badly,? Munnell concludes. ?They have either not made the required contributions or used inaccurate assumptions so that their contribution requirements are not meaningful.? She added, ?Fiscal discipline simply appeared not to be part of the state?s culture.? * That?s most certainly the case in Illinois, where adequate funding was never a serious concept. Yet, you?d never know this by reading wannabe governor Bruce Rauner?s latest Tribune op-ed?

?Unions spend big to fight amendment? The Southern ? Among the groups paying for the anti-amendment campaign are the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Illinois AFL-CIO, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.?

Constitutional Amendment 49: The Possible Poison Pill On Your Election Ballot?? Chicagoist?- Voters heading to the polls Tuesday, and voters who?ve taken advantage of early voting, will find one little known and under-publicized referendum at the very top of the ballot. A friend of ours who voted early last week said he was surprised to find it there and was so confused by the vague nature of its wording that he voted ?no.?

?Vote ?No? on Amendment #49
Gazette Chicago ? So, for all of the teachers, firefighters, police officers, university employees, and other public employees in our community ? if this amendment passes, all it will take is 50% plus one of any legislative body that oversees benefits to strip you of your hard-earned pensions.?

?Op-Ed: Unions Stand Up For The Middle Class
Progress Illinois ? The following op-ed is written by Henry Bayer, executive director of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31.

Editorial: Governor too crafty? Chicago Sun-Times ? So much for a quiet deal between Chicago?s mayor and the governor over the fate of the public agency that runs U.S. Cellular Field. Instead, Gov. Pat Quinn appears to have rammed through his choice to head the agency. Quinn simply wasn?t going to let Mayor Rahm Emanuel win this one.

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National News?

Bruised-purple Wisconsin takes political beating
FALL RIVER, Wis. ? The thought of a second term for President Barack Obama makes Will Cekosh shudder. The 41-year-old fears his taxes will skyrocket and the insurance agency he runs ?could be put out of business? by ?Obamacare.? A few miles up state Highway 16, 49-year-old lawman Dave Knapp sees Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch elitist who ?doesn?t come from the same world I do.??

George Lucas Donating Disney Billions to Fund Education? Talk about being generous. In case you missed the news, George Lucas came up on $4 billion recently when Disney decided to purchase his company Lucasfilm, and the ?Star Wars? filmmaker already knows where he?s going to put all that money.?

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1. UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT The national unemployment report ? the last broad snapshot of the economy before Tuesday?s presidential election ? is out, and the numbers show the U.S. economy added 171,000 jobs in October, more than analysts had forecast. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent, up from 7.8 percent. The Associated Press has the early report. ? 2. MIDWEST GEN ON THE EDGE Midwest Generation is heading toward a bankruptcy filing, which means its four coal-fired power plants that serve Northern Illinois could change hands. Crain?s has the details. ? 3. FAREWELL, PRENTICE The Commission on Chicago Landmarks ruled that Northwestern University?s plans to raze the old Prentice Women?s Hospital and build a medical research facility outweigh the building?s historic and architectural significance. Chicago Real Estate Daily has the story. ? 4. TIME FOR A SEARS REBRAND If it ever hopes to shake its image as the department store of yesteryear and win over younger generations, Sears needs something really bold ? like changing its name, says Crain?s columnist Joe Cahill. Read his column here. ? 5. RAHM DIALS UNIONS FOR DONATIONS After some contentious relations in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been calling labor unions over the past week and making a forceful case for why they should contribute six figures and up to President Barack Obama?s super PAC, Politico reports. ? 6. LOOK TO CHICAGO ON DERIVATIVES After a number of recent scandals in the privately traded derivatives markets, some argue the solution to the industry?s problems can be found in Chicago?s futures markets, not on Wall Street or in London. Mayor Emanuel tells attendees at a futures industry conference that during the financial crisis, the futures market was the one place that did well. Reuters has more. ? 7. GOOGLE?S FIGHT TO KEEP MOTO DEALS SECRET Two weeks before a high-stakes trial pitting Google?s Motorola Mobility unit against Microsoft, questions arise about how much of the trial will be conducted in secret. Google wants to keep the royalty deals that Motorola cut with other companies on patented technology out of the public eye, but they are the central issue in the trial, Reuters reports. ? 8. BLACK FIREFIGHTERS GRADUATION DAY The Chicago Fire Department graduates a group of African-American firefighters from the training academy after a federal court ruled that the department illegally left out thousands of black applicants in its 1995 test. As the result of a class-action lawsuit, a federal court ordered the city to train some of those applicants, 86 of whom graduated Thursday. The Tribune?s account is here. ? 9. COOK JUDGE ALLEGES SECRET CASES AGAINST HER Cook County Judge Susan McDunn makes bizarre appearances in federal court claiming that someone is out to get her, namely powerful Chicagoans whom she says are filing secret lawsuits against her. But the federal court can find no such cases. The Sun-Times looks at her claims. ? 10. EXTINCT CASH REGISTERS After 120 years, A. J. Thomas Midwest Cash Register Co. in the West Loop is closing up shop. Businesses just don?t show a need for the cash registers anymore, which are now antiques. Here is the WBEZ story.

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TIME.com Today?s Top Stories

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Light and Dark: How Sandy Created Two Manhattans

Hurricane Sandy?s storm surge on Oct. 29 flooded a major 14th Street power substation, there are only two New Yorks: a city of light and a city of dark.

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Rich Lowry: The Case for Romney

Romney does not naturally inspire adulation. In school, he should have been voted least likely to engender a cult of personality

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E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Case for Obama

The election does not represent a choice between left and right. It represents a choice between balance and a new, extreme form of conservatism

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What Should Be Done About Growing Inequality?

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Radovan Karadzic: Accused War Criminal Takes Up His Own Defense

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The Washington Post
Obama returns to trail as Romney sets sights on Pennsylvania

DOSWELL, Va. ? The presidential candidates grasped for momentum Thursday in the closing days of a hard-fought race, with President Obama returning to the campaign trail after a three-day hurricane hiatus while Mitt Romney launched a last-minute effort to snatch away vote-rich Pennsylvania.
In McLean, a street becomes a microcosm of election-year America

Sometimes, Lucas Gallegos needs a couple of eggs, so the long-retired baker, who still rustles up big batches of cookies for his Sunday-school students, goes next door to Stephanie Niedringhaus?s place, where she?s happy to oblige, even if she does believe the country is slipping into a dangerous selfishness because of people who share her neighbor?s politics.
Jersey Shore begins to register Sandy?s devastation

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. ? Police are preparing to search for bodies in this resort town by the sea, but first they have to round up the animals.
Life after Sandy still difficult for New York?s poor

NEW YORK ? The elevators had been out for four days at the Jacob Riis Houses, a public housing complex in Lower Manhattan, and there was only one way down for Adonis Brice.
Editorial Board: Pulling the U.S. drone war out of the shadows

IT?S BEEN 10 years since the first strike by an armed U.S. drone killed an al-Qaeda leader and five associates in Yemen. Since then, according to unofficial counts, there have been more than 400 ?targeted killing? drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia ? countries where the United States is not fighting a conventional war.

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canonize \KAN-uh-nahyz\, verb:

1. To glorify and honor.
2. Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
3. To consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy.

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