If you have any intelligence and sanity and have not yet seen "The
Cartel" you owe it to yourself and the children of the U.S. to do so.

http://www.TheCartelMovie.com

"Coherent, frequently clever and engaging."
-Howard Blume, L.A. Times

"The Cartel is a revelation."
-Kyle Smith, The New York Post

"[The Cartel is] a brisk, incisive and mind-boggling - no other phrase
will work - exposé".
-Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times

"This is a movie you need to see."
-Joe Scarborough, MSNBC's Morning Joe

"In “The Cartel,’’...the causes and consequences of the failings of
public education are chronicled in extraordinary detail."
-Brian MacQuarrie, Boston Globe

"What Bowdon has brought to light so vividly...applies across the
land."
-Kevin Thomas, Chicago Tribune

"An alarming portrait of a state that pours more money into its public
schools than any of the other 49 and yet continues to turn out
underperforming students with substandard educations...New Jersey
taxpayers, and the state's political leaders, need to see this
documentary."
-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"One notable school absence in New Jersey caught Bob Bowdon's
attention: $1 billion in educational funding for construction. A sum
of money that could fund a summer's worth of action movies simply
disappeared prompting Bowdon...to make The Cartel, an exposé about the
failings of the education system in New Jersey as well as the rest of
the country."
-Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle


"Bowdon's strength as a documentarist is... evident in the patience
and logic with which he makes an argument for a state and a system in
desperate need of reform."
-Michelle Orange, The Village Voice
This review also appears in the LA Weekly, in the Houston Press, in
the San Francisco Weekly, and in the Denver Westword.

The Cartel mentioned among 2010 education documentaries making reform
a mainstream issue, by the Weekly Standard.

"This movie is just one example...of how the New Jersey teachers are
now running scared. This is an excellent thing for everyone not on
their gravy train."
-James Bowman, The American Spectator

"...Bob Bowdon comes out swinging in The Cartel."
-Hugh Hart, San Francisco Chronicle

"Our country’s public education system...is a giant racket."
-Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper

"It gets to the heart and soul of this controversy."
-Mika Brezinzki, MSNBC's Morning Joe

"Balancing the fact-dispensing with emotional interview footage of
unhappy teachers and students, The Cartel is a convincing exposé of a
nationwide system designed to favor school officials over students."
-Peter Galvin, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"[Bob Bowdon] has managed to produce an engaging, complete account of
the arguments and relevant data in the fight over school choice."
-Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason.com

"The Cartel is garnering praise from critics and film festivals alike"
-New Jersey Herald

"This movie says it all, and is a must see for any American."
-Philadelphia City Paper

“…a tough-talking exposé.”
-Kathleen Carroll, The Record

“Is your school sub-par? Are costs for education still high? Bob
Bowdon can connect the dots.”
-Timothy J. Carroll, Hudson Reporter

"Challenges New Jersey's education establishment."
-Kristen Alloway, Star-Ledger

"Thoroughly refreshing...chilling expose' "
-Syndicated film critic Kam Williams, News Blaze

"Powerful and provocative"
-Gary Jason, The Heartland Institute

"The audiences laughed, gasped and hissed along with the film"
-Patrick Sullivan, Westfield Patch

"Factual and fair-minded"
-J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

"Eye-opening" and "attention-grabbing"
-Kristin Kramer, NightsandWeekends.com

The Cartel "should not be missed."
-Mark Lerner, DC Charter Schools Examiner, examiner.com

"Powerful documentary"
-Courier Post Online

"...one of the most revealing and interesting documentaries that I
have ever watched."
-Victoria Yuskaitis, The Sparta Independent

"The Cartel’s comprehensive assessment of the current American school
system offers the public much-needed exposure to an industry that, if
reformed appropriately, will actually educate American children and
make better use of our money."
-Jenny Xie, The Tech (MIT)

"This is a film that everyone can learn from, and it is important for
people to understand what is really going on in education."
-Kevin, Review St. Louis - gave the film an 'A' rating!

"'The Cartel' is a must-see exposé..."
-Carol Hemphill, South County Times

"...it’s a documentary you’ll want to show to everyone you know with
wide eyes and a newfound agenda for education reform." -Martin Malloy,
SF Station

"...anyone who is an educational policy dork should see "The Cartel,"
a documentary about the almost hilariously corrupt and ineffective New
Jersey educational system."
-Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post Express Night Out

"The film is a powerful indictment of how our schools are funded, and
the politics of how those funds are allocated."
-Joshua Sharf, JSharf.com

"This factual and well-reasoned advocacy documentary presents a
devastating conservative critique of public education in New Jersey
and, by extension, the United States. ... Bowdon makes a compelling
argument against the defensive maneuvers of teachers' unions and in
favor of vouchers and charter schools, but his documentary is no
exercise in free-market cant. It merely explodes the fiction that
funneling more money into the same highly bureaucratized and
politicized system will fix our deepening education crisis."
-J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

"Bowdon started creating his film before Christie even announced he
was running for governor, and he is pleased at his fortuitousness that
the governor’s ongoing attempts to overhaul the state’s education
system are putting issues like those covered in The Cartel in the news
almost every day. Gov. Christie has also personally thanked Bowdon for
making The Cartel."
-Bryan La Placa, NewJersey.com

"Here in New Jersey, there’s probably no bigger “hot-button” issue
than public education and its discontents (unions vs. politicians;
public servant salaries; school choice, and the “T” word) — and
there’s likely never been anything so poised to push that button than
The Cartel."
-Tom Chesek, RedBankGreen

“The Cartel is a must-see.”
-Bob Ingle, APP.com

"The Cartel busts at the seams with factoids..."
-Michael Bergeron, Free Press Houston

"Bowdon combs the Garden State for stories of waste, fraud and abuse,
and, as the anecdotes pile up and the statistics unfold, the schools’
gardens turn into weed patches tended by corrupt boards and self-
interested union leaders.'" -Paul E. Peterson, EducationNext (Peterson
appears in the film)

"Bowdon paints a picture of 'rampant, pervasive, institutional'
corruption in a state that's mired in the 'school district business.'"
-Michael Slenske, GOOD Education

"See The Cartel, and take your kids, too."
-Alex Adrianson, InsiderOnline

"The Cartel surpasses all expectations."
-Joe Bendel, j.b. spins

“Bowdon uses facts and data, not just emotion, to make his point."
-Fred Snowflack, DailyRecord.com

“The Cartel is a terrific documentary which vividly illuminates what
school reformers already know—the ‘system’ is in trouble and teacher
unions are the major problem.”
-Robert Enlow, President & CEO, Friedman Foundation for Educational
Choice