Category: The Farrell Report

Eli Broad, the Cartel of corporate education reformers’ minister of education has been engaged in a long term dismantling of public education with a systematic substitution of traditional and corporate charter schools in small, medium, and large urban school districts from coast to coast.

Grassroots, Cartel-funded groups have run ads in major newspapers and on cable television with the talking heads endorsing voucher and charter schools as the best way to improve public education

Since the early 1990s, voucher and charter laws were systematically passed by state legislatures across the nation. They were funded in part by a Cartel of corporate education reformers who conspired to turn public education private and to make it a new corporate profit center as the U.S. public schools became increasingly populated by low-income students of color.

Prior to and during the creation of this lawmaking, there were no town hall meetings held to solicit input from constituents... Since it was passed unanimously by the New Jersey Assembly during the early summer of 2017, AB1114 has generated controversy throughout the nation with numerous publications weighing in against it.

Of the six community organizations invited to contribute to the curriculum, one-third represent police officers, and they have been resolute in defending existing police behavior irrespective of the police and citizen cell phone videos documenting highly questionable police practices

Everything will be on the line for public education in 2018 as the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are presently constituted with Republican majorities, in addition to having a Republican President; all are perched to strike its death knell.

Public education stakeholders must be more mindful of the Cartel’s multifaceted assault on public schools that is intensifying daily.

are fuming over what they are labeling “a police deference bill” and wonder why the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association and the State Fraternal Order of Police will have such prominent roles in shaping the curriculum while the People’s Organization for Progress (POP) and Black Lives Matter (BLM), the foremost advocates in opposing police brutality and overreach in New Jersey, have been excluded from participation.

Trump recognized early on that a rising percentage of the white electorate is fearful that the growth of populations of color in America is displacing their numerical superiority, causing them to be uncomfortable with the rapidly changing demographics in the country.

Democrats, unions, and teachers need to develop a message that resonates with its core electorate and the broader public that is consistent with its mission and agenda.