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

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.

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.