Fix The Schools: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 2

Cleveland's public schools are failing to prepare students for their futures and as a result, all parents who can afford to have been fleeing to the suburbs for decades.

Yet some urban schools, like Think College Now in Oakland, California are finding out that a combination of administrative autonomy and accountability can lead to amazing results.

Within Cleveland's own boundaries, charter schools are booming and delivering quality education at a fraction of the cost of traditional public schools.

Does Cleveland have what it takes to fundamentally reform its K-12 education system and become a leader in 21st-century education?

Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey is written and produced by Paul Feine; camera and editing by Roger Richards and Alex Manning; narrated by Nick Gillespie; music by the Cleveland band Cats on Holiday.

This is the second of six episodes that will air March 15-19, 2010. Approximately 10 minutes long.

Coming tomorrow: Privatize It.

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[Wormtail81]

Funding dollars that follow the student? Schools competing with each other to perform well? Why aren't we doing all of these things already everywhere?

[robertmike57]

They do, it's called the AMA

[cdoftx]

Drew Carey for Cleveland mayor!!

[felpaluche]

It all starts in school, as they say.

[studio7manga]

This episode was by far the best. Poor education is one of the biggest reasons for the city of Cleveland's decline, more than any other factor aside from manufacturing job losses. Most people I know leave to the suburbs because of education. There definitely needs to be more options for education and if charter schools can provide better results without starving the public schools of funds, so much the better.

[printo69]

As a Clevelander, I loved this series. Cleveland and cities like it i.e. Buffalo and Detroit and "progressive" cities that have slowly progessed back into the Stone Age. The governments in these cities have destroyed themselves with taxes, regulations, spending, and public sector unions. More of this will not fix them. Its a shame though. These cities drive away talent and keep those who support the status quo. They will never fix themselves unless they literally have a Renaissance.

[1buckdawg]

@robertmike57 nick gillespie is a well known libertarian you fuckin moron. get your facts straight. not to mention plenty of the problems cleveland is facing is due to lazy worthless liberal government officials

[marinegrunt0341]

@fatpak419 The mess we are in now has nothing to do with the free market. There has been no such thing as a free market in this country since the early 1900's. You are totally diluded to think the government doesn't have its hand in nearly every business in this country. The problem we are in now is a direct result of government and in particular the federal reserves manipulation of monetary policy. Artificially low interest rates set by the fed created the housing bubble.

[fatpak419]

@doughtymqan Ideologues founded this country and they were socially incorrect. Misogyny was a social norm during Friedman's literary tenure. If you think that the free market can't strangle itself look at the mess we"re in now. There has to be some sort of compromise from the municipal level, where far too many citizens are government-reliant. I don't care if it's citizenry, local or federal a sweeping change has to come from somewhere, These great schools can't account for masses.