Category: The Farrell Report

Race to the Top and Common Core Standards (CCSS) have resulted in the lay-offs/terminations of thousands of teachers, administrators, and educational support personnel; urban, low-wealth districts have been especially hard hit.

Black and Hispanic families and children are the primary victims of Emanuel’s privatization of public education, and hundreds of groups advocating against police brutality, school closings, corporate charters, and city corruption are coalescing around their issues with the goal of removing him from office.

The Obama brain trust has concluded that Emanuel has to go. They are joined in this view by Cartel members and the Chicago business community whose profit margins have been and are being substantially hurt by this ongoing crisis.

President Obama has a choice to make. He can remain silent and hope the Emanuel catastrophe ebbs, or he can call and counsel him to leave office before he further undermines the Obama legacy and unwittingly sabotages the election of Hillary Clinton to the U.S. presidency.

Emanuel’s upcoming negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will be the final nail in his political coffin. His unyielding commitment to implement the corporate and foundation Cartel’s extermination of public education persists even as his political career is being undone.

Emanuel’s departure from office will be a model for the removal of other high profile Cartel surrogates who are decimating public education across the nation. It will also give them pause as they give further thought to carrying water for the Cartel.

Current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has pushed privatization to the limits while launching a full-scale assault on the budget of the Chicago public schools as a way to plug holes in the city budget, pay the Cartel, and to provide raises for the city’s police officers while they are wantonly killing males of color in the streets.

Questionable teacher evaluations, school closings, federal under-funding of public education as compared to privatized educational reform, etc. have been robustly implemented with the full backing of Obama, turning a blind eye to the ongoing corruption in corporate charter schools and outright criminality by Cartel-appointed public school superintendents.

These Broad bottom feeders are supported by a bevy of Cartel-related consultants whom they reward handsomely with grants, speaking fees, and contracts after they ascend to the superintendent’s office.