"The Cartel" Movie Follows The Money Trail In Education PLUS Charter School Clash on "Morning Joe"
"The noble sounding goal of helping children might have given the most powerful players a sense of impunity - a kind of moral cover to corruption"
-- "The Cartel"
"Corruption Is Rampant, Pervasive and Institutionalized"
Education As Big Business: Where Does The Money Go?
PLUS CHARTER SCHOOL CLASH
-- "The Cartel"
"Corruption Is Rampant, Pervasive and Institutionalized"
Education As Big Business: Where Does The Money Go?
PLUS CHARTER SCHOOL CLASH
"The Cartel", a documentary exposing the money trail in education, opened this weekend in theaters across the country. Bob Bowdon, a New Jersey based television producer and news anchor/commentator, decided to take on the education "cartel" in one of the country's highest spending states - New Jersey - as an illustration for other states to take notice and take action.
Bowdon is asking parents, teachers and other concerned citizens to ask questions about where their taxpayer money is going, claiming 90% of the money pouring into schools goes to everything BUT teacher salaries. For example, if a classroom is receiving $350,000 per typical N.J. classroom and a typical teacher salary is $55,000., where does the remaining $295,000. per classroom go???
"The Cartel" website encapsulates the purpose of this two year journey and investigation:
Bowdon is asking parents, teachers and other concerned citizens to ask questions about where their taxpayer money is going, claiming 90% of the money pouring into schools goes to everything BUT teacher salaries. For example, if a classroom is receiving $350,000 per typical N.J. classroom and a typical teacher salary is $55,000., where does the remaining $295,000. per classroom go???
"The Cartel" website encapsulates the purpose of this two year journey and investigation:
" . . .The conventional wisdom says that our schools could be dramatically