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Narrated by Matt Damon, this feature-length documentary explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting impact on America’s most vulnerable children. Filmed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Nashville and other cities, BACKPACK FULL OF CASH takes viewers through the tumultuous 2013-14 school year, exposing the world of corporate-driven education “reform” where public education -- starved of resources -- hangs in the balance.

EdEarl 8 Nov 11
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Devos would do away with public schools for private run education and a lot of money. She and her group feel public schools are a drain on their taxes spent since they send their children to private schools where she wants vouchers (tax money) to go.

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It's colleges too. The Koch Brothers are on a crusade it seems to have influence over the majority of American colleges.

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In the 60's, the Supreme Court heard a case on education in which, i believe Chicago (a major metropolis) tried to institute paying Catholic school teachers because the city feared the collapse of that system would bring too many students into the public system to handle. The Church sued, fearing oversight (gee, who would have guessed the Catholic hierarchy would be against oversight). Now, with crumbling economic structure to support pubic education; and with the growth of disjointed from reality people wanting to indoctrinate rather than educate - schools find themselves on the cusp of great challenges in order to survive and help produce an educated class. Fels like a failing proposition.

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