ABOUT THE
CARTEL | Teachers punished
for speaking out. Principals fired for trying to do the right thing. Union
leaders defending the indefensible. Bureaucrats blocking new charter schools.
These are just some of the people we meet in The
Cartel. The film also introduces us to teens who can't read, parents
desperate for change, and teachers struggling to launch stable alternative
schools for inner city kids who want to learn. We witness the tears of a little
girl denied a coveted charter school spot, and we share the triumph of a Camden
homeschool's first graduating class.
Together,
these people and their stories offer an unforgettable look at how a widespread
national crisis manifests itself in the educational failures and frustrations
of individual communities. They also underscore what happens when our schools
don't do their job. "These are real children whose lives are being
destroyed," director Bob Bowdon explains.
The
Cartel shows us our educational system like
we've never seen it before. Behind every dropout factory, we discover, lurks a
powerful, entrenched, and self-serving cartel. But The Cartel doesn't just describe the problem.
Balancing local storylines against interviews with education experts such as
Clint Bolick (former president of Alliance for School Choice), Gerard Robinson
(president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), and Chester Finn
(president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute), The Cartel explores what dedicated parents,
committed teachers, clear-eyed officials, and tireless reformers are doing to
make our schools better for our kids.
This
movie will force the scales to fall from the eyes of policymakers, education
officials, reformers, intellectuals, teachers, and taxpayers. Putting a human
face on the harm done by the educational cartel, The Cartel takes us beyond the statistics,
generalizations, and abstractions that typically frame our debates about
education—and draws an unequivocal bottom line: If we care about our children's
futures, we must insist upon far-reaching and immediate reform. And we must do
it now.
You can watch this movie for free on Hulu.
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