Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest. |
| 0:07.8 | Comes to us from Maryland. His name is Chris, Chris Pabst, P-A-B-S-T. If you're watching this on my YouTube channels X Rumble Rockfin, you'll see the cover of his new book. |
| 0:18.9 | The full title of his new book is Failure Factory, |
| 0:22.0 | how Baltimore City Public Schools, Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future. It's available now. |
| 0:28.9 | It was published late last year. It's on Amazon. I'm sure you can find it on other places. |
| 0:33.5 | I read through it today. There's a Kindle version, audiobook version, hardcover paperback, so you can get in whatever format you like. It also has excellent reviews. It has a 4.9, deserved reviews, 4.9, like 68, 4.9s, which is very unusual. Like I look at books all the time. So I know that they usually kind of median out at around, I mean, a good book at |
| 0:54.6 | at 4.5 or something like that. So he is or is the lead investigative reporter for Project |
| 1:01.6 | Baltimore Fox 45 News is ongoing investigation into Maryland's public education system. |
| 1:08.2 | He's also a national award-winning reporter and a best-selling |
| 1:11.9 | author. His work has led to the passing of state laws, criminal convictions, and court rulings |
| 1:16.9 | that have set legal precedent throughout Maryland. His book Capital Murder hit number one on Amazon |
| 1:23.2 | in three categories. His second book, De-Evolution or De-Evolution, a novel, was released in the summer of 2016. |
| 1:31.3 | He's received many awards, such as the Maryland General from the Maryland General Assembly, |
| 1:36.6 | Maryland Office of the Comptroller, the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education. |
| 1:42.0 | He also received in 2023 the Vanguard Award |
| 1:44.9 | in the Maryland State Conference NACP. |
| 1:49.4 | He also received the Excellence in Education Advocacy Award |
| 1:52.2 | from the Randallstown chapter of the NACP. |
| 1:55.4 | And his reports have been recognized |
| 1:57.1 | by some of this journalism that he's done, |
| 2:00.3 | including an Emmy Award for Investing Reporting |
| 2:02.2 | from the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences. But again, we're going to talk about this |
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