Category: The Farrell Report

Newark and Camden have a near majority of its predominantly African American and Hispanic student populations enrolled in corporate charter schools, and the numbers are increasing rapidly on an annual basis.

Trenton residents raised a firestorm of protest: vigorously complaining about the lack of transparency in the search process; protesting the proposed layoffs of more than 100 special needs population personnel; opposing the continuing Broad influence in the Trenton Public Schools (TPS); and criticizing the Mayor’s double-cross after he ran on a pro-public education platform.

Broad’s objectives are to: demonize teachers and their unions; promote virtual and bricks and mortar charter schools; run public schools through a corporate business model; reduce the number of union jobs in school districts; privatize school services; promote high stakes testing; and push as much money into the private sector as possible.

These are perilous times for K-12 educators across America as the Cartel is geared up to eradicate public education.

To date, the Cartel has been unable to wrest control of the Montclair Public Schools from its citizens and teachers. However, Montclair residents must remain vigilant as its current interim superintendent, Dr. Ronald Bolnadi, a staunch supporter of public education, will leave soon.

There are strong relationships between long-term lead poisoning (oftentimes unacknowledged and/or denied) and standardized testing outcomes in poverty-ridden school districts where the majority of students are African American and Hispanic or members of other racial minority groups.

Beginning in the 1990s, lead poisoning became intertwined with education reform initiatives as the Cartel of corporate and foundation leaders, and their surrogates, came to realize that the prevalence of lead poisoning in school children in under-funded and under-performing urban schools could be part of their strategy to promote private-sector alternatives to public schools—

The Cartel originally focused its energy on electing Republican and Democratic governors and state legislatures who would sign on to its specific education agenda and its broader goal to move public services into the private sector.

parents have chosen and/or have been forced into corporate charter schools in droves, driving up charter funding and depleting the budgets of traditional public schools.

As the demographic makeup of the country is changing rapidly to a pluralistic society, there is an urgency to move public services into the private sector so that the corporate and wealthy elite can sustain their economic hegemony in an increasingly diverse society.