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

Teachers have been mandated to increase their pension contributions in numerous states, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana, and others. But what is most striking is that at the same time these payments have been boosted, states have held the line on teachers’ salary upgrades which have resulted in an overall decrease in teachers’ earnings.

HBCU presidents have to be wary of Trump’s aim to make them members of his school choice posse.

There is an increasing racial and cultural disconnect between those who fund public education and those who consume it. An emerging view is that publicly-funded corporate-led school choice will meet the needs of non-minority students, allowing for profits to be made, while a selective population of students of color will be added to make it look like America.

It is unclear whether today’s education union leaders and members are prepared to engage in the direct action that allowed unions to come into being and force the private and public sectors to sign collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) that enabled them to acquire the benefits and work conditions they enjoy today.

Secretary DeVos is cut from the same personality cloth as Justice Thomas and President Trump, never ignoring a slight without a response. She was angered by having her reputation dragged through the mud and having her basic intellectual competence examined during her nomination process.

Booker has received millions of dollars in campaign contributions from DeVos, her family, and her school choice cronies since he first ran for office in 1998. He has served with DeVos on boards and committees of numerous school choice organizations since that time. She granted him permission to cast a vote against her confirmation since she understood that he could not stand with her because he had to maintain his political viability as he pursues a run for president in 2020.

Christie is using his last year in office to boost his school choice and anti-education union profile. He has been the most successful Republican governor in a traditionally Democratic state in advancing corporate charters and public school privatization.

does not factor addressing poverty into any of the necessities for effective public education because she basically believes it does not matter.

She is for guns in schools, vouchers and corporate charter schools, and unbridled school choice with no public oversight. She and other members of the education reform Cartel remain devoted to their belief that the choice options that they have concocted for the parents of low-income children, mostly of color, are best for inner city students.