Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Charter Schools
Overview
Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren’t at all like pizzerias.
Details
- Series
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 2016-08-21
- Runtime
- 35 min
Episode context
Charter Schools is Episode 22 in Season 3 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It aired on 2016-08-21. The runtime is 35 min.
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