John Oliver on How Charter Schools Around the Country Have Been Allowed to Run Wild (Video)
"The problem with letting the free market decide when it comes to kids," the "Last Week Tonight" host said in his commentary on publicly funded, privately run schools, "is that kids change faster than the market. And by the time it's obvious a school is failing, futures may have been ruined."“The problem with letting the free market decide when it comes to kids,” the “Last Week Tonight” host said in his commentary on publicly funded, privately run schools, “is that kids change faster than the market. And by the time it’s obvious a school is failing, futures may have been ruined.”
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