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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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