'Cartel' an interesting but dry look at U.S. education system

Now that the government has tackled heath insurance, a new documentary comes along with the bad news: There’s another enormous, intractable problem in need of the country’s attention.

According to Bob Bowdon’s “The Cartel,” our education system is shamefully ineffective, wasteful, even corrupt, and needs immediate reform. Using only one state as his microcosm, with little detail about the larger national problem, the former broadcast news reporter does it all: He directs, produces, writes, performs the soundtrack’s original music and even has a credit as a camera operator on an expose that is obviously a personal crusade.