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Diane Ravitch to Readers: Don't Let Charter Industry Silence John Oliver Pa. Department of Education Ramping Up Charter School Oversight Philly Mayor goes to bat for Eagles fans, cheesesteaks against John Oliver ETA: Pa. senator says HBO's John Oliver 'went too far' with charter school rant Ryan Lochte charged by police in Rio de Janeiro with making false crime report ETA2: Detroit Had More Corruption in One Day Than John Oliver Found in Charter Schools Over 10 Years

Territorial Voting Rights Lawsuit Faces Setback As Election Nears

What To Do When John Oliver Uses Your City As An Example Of Everything That's Dumb About America

  Voting Rights Is Not a Fringe Issue

Unintentionally funny response to the piece: Comic John Oliver pokes holes in charter school oversight. Proponents poke back.

Smith: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver’s Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools

John Oliver Urges Donald Trump to Drop Out, Claims Doing So Would Make Him a "Legend"

Things to Do in DC this Week (August 22-24): John Oliver, Yoga & Cocktails, and the Science of Harry Potter 9 things to do in the D.C. area the week of Aug. 22-26

Condemnation of Charter Schools Exposes a Rift Over Black Students

At Least 120 Athletes at the Rio Olympics Have Previously Been Suspended for Doping

Jon Stewart To Larry Wilmore On Final ‘The Nightly Show’: “What Did You Do, Piss Off Peter Thiel?”

Bonus points to anybody who can make sense of this quote: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

John Oliver Gets The Risks Of Sub Prime Auto Loans Completely Wrong Texas Leaders Mum on Trump's Plan to Enlist Election Observers ETA: For those of you who wonder how anybody could reach adulthood without being able to calculate payments based on X, Y, and Z, I suggest you work in a rural, low-income school district for a couple of years. I did and met many a high school student graduating with two years of algebra classes under their belt who couldn't even calculate 2 + 3 x 4 correctly. (They were also taught that the Crusades were a group of missionaries who went around the world helping people.) These were the same students who magically passed their pre-algebra classes in middle school without learning how to multiply 5 x 6. Why would the teachers permit such a thing, you ask? This particular school district is the winner of many an educational grant and award, both on the national and local level, for their exceptionally high graduation rate for a low-income school. It's why their staff is always able to fly first class and stay in four-star hotels when they attend teaching conferences, despite being such a poor district that they can't even afford to build enough porta potties for their kids to meet state guidelines.

Why One Association's PR Defense Stumbled

Jerry Seinfeld Reveals the Joke He Wrote for Obama, Plans to Bring 'Comedians in Cars' to TV ETA: Edinburgh Fringe 2016 Review: Andy Zaltzman

How ‘fake news’ got real Special watchdog report to land on anniversary of catastrophic fire (Editors Notebook)

Rio Paralympics 2016: Russian athletes banned after doping scandal

Native: Full Frontal Disclosure

Newsonomics: After John Oliver, the you-get-what-you-pay-for imperative has never been clearer You can still win that Vermont newspaper in an essay contest

Afternoon Mirror

Brooklyn Paper office stars on ‘John Oliver’ show

Philippine leader links 150 judges, politicians to drugs

Updated: Queen Is The Champion Over Donald Trump And The RNC (Sort Of)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Season 3 Available Now in Digital HD Through Google Play

Aziz Ansari, Jon Hamm, John Oliver to Guest Star on TruTV’s ‘Billy on the Street’