Tired of booing at Cathie Black's gaffes? Her predecessor Joel Klein has a few more tricks up his sleeve. Though he recently wrote against teacher pensions in the Journal, and is rumored to be pulling in upwards of $4.5 million at his new gig at News Corp. (which owns the Journal), the Daily News brings word that Klein is set to pull in a $34,000-a-year pension from the city (Klein made $250k-a-year as Chancellor). It would take a teacher with a master's degree 20 years of service to earn a similar pension. How's that for "hollowing out public education?"
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