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The Cartel...takes on the 'unconscionable failure' of New Jersey's public schools.
- USA Today
A brisk, incisive and mind-boggling – no other phrase will work – exposé
This movie says it all, and is a must see for any American.
- Philadelphia City Paper
About the Film
Teachers punished for speaking out. Principals fired for trying to do the right thing. Union leaders defending the indefensible. Bureaucrats blocking new charter schools. 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, this movie explores what people
are doing to make our schools better for our kids. 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.
Brought to you by World Partners in Education at Dartmouth.