There's so much loot to be made in education, argues Bob Bowdon, therefore simply when you snip out the unprofitable bits, like good quality teachers. In his education documentary "The Cartel," by a TV news reporter in New Jersey, paints a grand ugly picture of the institutional corruption that has resulted in virtually incredible wastes of taxpayer money. It's not toilsome for Bowdon to illustrate that something's atrociously awry with a state that pays $17,000 per student but can only wield a 39% reading proficiency rate -- that there's a crisis is undeniable, how to deal with it is another question altogether.
The two sides of this struggle meet head-on in interviews throughout the film: there are the teachers union and school board members who have managed to allocate 90 cents of every taxpayer buck into everything but teachers' salaries -- although a selection of school administrators make upwards of $100,000. On the other slope are the supporters of a charter school system, private schools in which parents can use tax vouchers to pay tuition and shake off the public nightmare. In those disordered public schools, he points out, it's practically unimaginable to fire an instructor -- so even a shoddy one has a trade for life.
"The movie examines lots of uncommon aspects of public teaching, tenure, backing, patronage drops, subversion --meaning larceny -- vouchers and charter schools," says Bowdon. "And as such it sort of serves as a swift-moving primer on all of the raging topics amongst the education-reform cause."
"The documentary first appeared on the festival circuit in summer 2009, appearing in theaters nationally a year later. Hopefully it will get a boost, and not be overshadowed, by the more recently released docudrama "Waiting for Superman," by "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim. He sees the two documentaries as taking alternative approaches to the identical predicament, "The Cartel" by examining public policy and "Superman" focusing on the human-interest aspects. "My film is the left-brained variant, more analytical," he says, "'Waiting for Superman' is more the right-brained treatment."
And his film is relentlessly critical, making a intense case for the concept that the amount of money spent is nowhere near as relevant as how it is spent. He follows the money to describe conclusions around how shameless the Jersey school system is, but his picture features moments of soaring emotion and heartbreak. The weeping face of a youthful girl who learns she was not selected for a place at a charter school makes its own powerful debate for the unsatisfying failure of a state's education system.
And although there's a satire in this variety of public depravity happening in a state famed for its organized crime, it's unambiguous that this is not an isolated collapse. Bowdon's film illustrates a local predicament, but any watcher will acknowledge the systems of system failure in their own state's schools. The one he seems to be most behind is the charter schools, which take the reins from the unions and give them back to the taxpayer. Nevertheless he also knows it'll be an uphill battle to recover control from those who've worked so intense to make education very profitable for the very few.
The two sides of this struggle meet head-on in interviews throughout the film: there are the teachers union and school board members who have managed to allocate 90 cents of every taxpayer buck into everything but teachers' salaries -- although a selection of school administrators make upwards of $100,000. On the other slope are the supporters of a charter school system, private schools in which parents can use tax vouchers to pay tuition and shake off the public nightmare. In those disordered public schools, he points out, it's practically unimaginable to fire an instructor -- so even a shoddy one has a trade for life.
"The movie examines lots of uncommon aspects of public teaching, tenure, backing, patronage drops, subversion --meaning larceny -- vouchers and charter schools," says Bowdon. "And as such it sort of serves as a swift-moving primer on all of the raging topics amongst the education-reform cause."
"The documentary first appeared on the festival circuit in summer 2009, appearing in theaters nationally a year later. Hopefully it will get a boost, and not be overshadowed, by the more recently released docudrama "Waiting for Superman," by "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim. He sees the two documentaries as taking alternative approaches to the identical predicament, "The Cartel" by examining public policy and "Superman" focusing on the human-interest aspects. "My film is the left-brained variant, more analytical," he says, "'Waiting for Superman' is more the right-brained treatment."
And his film is relentlessly critical, making a intense case for the concept that the amount of money spent is nowhere near as relevant as how it is spent. He follows the money to describe conclusions around how shameless the Jersey school system is, but his picture features moments of soaring emotion and heartbreak. The weeping face of a youthful girl who learns she was not selected for a place at a charter school makes its own powerful debate for the unsatisfying failure of a state's education system.
And although there's a satire in this variety of public depravity happening in a state famed for its organized crime, it's unambiguous that this is not an isolated collapse. Bowdon's film illustrates a local predicament, but any watcher will acknowledge the systems of system failure in their own state's schools. The one he seems to be most behind is the charter schools, which take the reins from the unions and give them back to the taxpayer. Nevertheless he also knows it'll be an uphill battle to recover control from those who've worked so intense to make education very profitable for the very few.
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