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An Education Ceo: Robert Furek '64 Brings Accountability To Hartford Public Schools, Rick Green
An Education Ceo: Robert Furek '64 Brings Accountability To Hartford Public Schools, Rick Green
Colby Magazine
Armed state troopers standing by his side, an ashen-faced Robert Furek '64 waded carefully through the jeering crowd lining the hallway of the ornate Hartford city hall.
"Racists and fascists!" some yelled. Furek, chairman of the board of trustees running the Hartford, Conn., public schools, quickly left the building, the taunts and finger-pointing. Furek and his colleagues had just voted to remove the district's superintendent of schools, an African-American woman some in this downtrodden community saw as a source of hope and inspiration.