State Government Public Education
Public Education
School Choice Legislation - 2012
Rep. Eric Bedingfield speaks for H.4894
The South Carolina Conservative Blog has an entry for H.4894 Click Here
Great and Terrible Problems in Public Education
Americans for Prosperity held a viewing of "The Cartel" during National School Choice Week (January 23 – 29). The documentary presents an investigation into the failing institution of public education.
15-year-olds students in America rank 35th out of 57 countries in math and literacy, behind almost all industrialized nations! This despite vaste amounts of funding. America's willingness to spend as much as it takes to improve education attracts scoundrels looking to tap into the money stream.
The investigative reporting showed how corruption has no limits where money, power, and job creation is at stake. This is the real agenda, not the children's welfare. Education, a safe school environment and rewarding good work is not the highest priority; its not even a priority. It gets lip service in order to increase the funding. Improving educational results would only lead to reduced funding and is therefore, contrary to the needs of the Teacher's Union. The Cartel exposes the unbelievable lengths a Teachers Union will go to protect the lucrative revenue it makes off of ineffective education. The Teachers Union is a business, it is not a guardian.
Education is a money magnet for teacher unions, municipal bond dealers, and other special interest groups that are drawn to the great concentrations of public funds.
Big profits are made by money churners who work with school boards to fund Palatial schools and state of the art stadiums. The money lending profits are hugh when great debt is placed on property owners. School boards with the long term obligation to pay for the bonds. Hugh amounts of funds are directed to buildings and administration, and not to the classroom.
"The Cartel" is an award-winning documentary about corruption in public education and the promise of school choice.
Honesty and complaints of corruption is suppressed with a vengeance by the criminal cartel. In the state of New Jersey, a rampant self serving, institutionalized corruption operates without any sense of social responsibility or concern for the common good. Excellent teachers are discredit and eliminated if they dare defy the chain of corruption. Principals and School Board members that standup for reform are ushered out the door.
Besides the waste of educational funding, the children's loss of education, some students cope with unsafe schools.
The Cartel:
Teachers punished for speaking out.
Principals fired for trying to do the right thing.
Union leaders defend 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.
This website gives you lists of movies on various topics exposing government fraud at all levels.
About the Movie www.theCartelmovie.com
School Choice Article from the Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org