COLUMBIA - A Charleston legislator filed a House bill this week that would uproot the board of South Carolina ETV because it is airing a documentary critical of public funding for schools.

Rep. John Graham Altman's bill calls for removal of the current seven-member board. The measure would allow the governor to appoint replacements, but the Charleston Republican's bill says the legislature would have to approve them.

Altman's bill was filed after ETV decided to air a 58-minute documentary "Corridor of Shame," which shows crumbling walls, leaky roofs, faulty fire alarms and unheated classrooms.

Those conditions were part of testimony in a 101-day trial targeting the legislature for inadequate public school spending.

Producers raised $75,000 from some of the state's biggest Republican and Democrat philanthropists for the documentary. They're distributing DVDs and videos to the state's 170 legislators, Gov. Mark Sanford and community leaders across the state.

"ETV was never viewed as a propaganda arm," Altman said. "I just hate to see ETV get involved in all this. When it airs these advocacy shows, it places its stamp of approval on them."