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Category: The Farrell Report

Commentary

Connecting the Dots: The Cartel Surrogates in the Privatization of Public Education, Part I

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans are the major culprits in efforts to privatize public education. However, the Cartel has long supported a cadre of Democrats who are equal contributors to some or all of the privatization of public education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels.

The Cartel pro-privatization of public education corporations, Wall Street financial institutions, and conservative wealthy individuals--led by the Koch Bros. and the Broad, Gates, Walton, Bradley, Arnold…

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Commentary

The Koch Bros., President Obama, Corruption, and the Transformation of Public Education and the Public Sector

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

high-performing charters have attained their results by methodically getting rid of the most difficult to teach students and that, overall, based on third-party assessments, traditional public schools perform as well as charters although they do not have the same options to create a student population with a lower risk of failure.

The Koch Bros., key leaders of a Cartel of corporate, foundation, and Wall Street financial institutions, have been getting positive press of late and very kind…

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Commentary

Our New Public School Students: Are We Up to the Challenge?

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Structural changes in the economy and the continuing vestiges of racial discrimination are rendering the parents of our new public school students dysfunctional as caregivers and superfluous as breadwinners.

Public school districts, many of which are experiencing grave educational challenges in delivering effective education instruction, are under siege. On the one hand are those who…

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Public School Privatization Strategies: What Teachers, Unions, and Public Education Stakeholders Should Know

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

the most serious issue facing public education stakeholders is their belief that since public education, as presently constituted, has always been around, it will be around in the future.

A Cartel of right-leaning corporations, foundations, Wall Street hedge fund managers, and wealthy individuals has geared up for an aggressive pursuit to privatize urban and suburban…

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Commentary

Chris Cerf’s New Jersey Education Gangster Allies In National School Privatization Violence, Part 2

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

These education gangsters have wrought tremendous damage on school children of color they have claimed to love and to nurture.

Read Part 1 Chris Cerf, newly appointed superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, has been a long-term servant of the Cartel of right-leaning corporate and foundation…

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