Category: The Farrell Report

Democratic success in the 2020 presidential election may well hinge on whether unions and Democrats can establish an effective unified, get-out-the-vote coalition to defeat Trump. Otherwise, there will be a repeat of the 2016 Hillary Clinton debacle.

It is difficult to see how Booker overcomes Harris in the black community when so many of black professional women are teachers and public school administrators and have been savaged by his school choice policies. And their white counterparts are also being turned off by his past record of assaults on public education.

Broad has systematically launched a draconian assault on K-12 public education teachers and the institution itself, while Democratic elected officials, especially the 2020 presidential candidates, have largely remained silent.

prospective 2020 Democratic presidential candidates appear to be lukewarm allies of teachers and other progressive issues. Educators will have to take their measure as they have a year before voting in the Democratic primaries begins.

Despite the billions of dollars that the right-leaning education reform Cartel has invested in decimating K-12 public education during the past thirty years, teachers in red and blue states are now systematically fighting back without fear or deference.

Koch and his Cartel of super rich education reformers are basically implementing the 1956 southern manifesto, the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” which was designed to defy the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education which desegregated the public schools and to mandate continued separation of the races.

King saw education as a liberating force, the very cornerstone of freedom, saying that “As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”

no one is considering the negative impact of widely available pot products - candies, brownies, gummies, sodas, syrup, and virtually any food or snack product - on public school students, especially those in low-income and poverty-ridden areas.

To get a true picture of school choice, one only has to follow the money. Despite the phony positive findings of non-scientific studies perpetrated by the conservative right which they have used their public relations staff to market in their own academic journals and in the popular print and broadcast media, charter schools and vouchers have not worked for the masses of poor minority students for whom they were allegedly designed to serve.