Charter-school parents and students are planning a massive rally next month targeted at Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, The Posౠt has learned.
De Blasio, the front-runner in the race for City Hall, has vowed to stop allowing new charter schools to share space🗹 in buildings with traditional public schools.
And he has propo💧sed𝄹 to charge charters rent for government-owned space, which critics say would effectively force them to shut down.
Republic♒an rival Joe Lhota has vowed to expand schoo👍l choice.
Success Academy Charter💛 Schools CEO Eva Moskowitz sent out a letter a♌sking parents to join the Oct. 8 demonstration.
“Y♛our child’s education is threatened. Our very existence is threatened. Opponents want to take away our funding and our facilities. These attacks are a real danger — and we cannot stand idly,” it said.
“Don’t let opponents of ed reform steal your ch🗹ildren’s future . . . We must show public officials that parents will fight for the right to choose excellent schools.”
Success Academy will provide buses for parents and students to attend the demonstration, which is slated to include a march over the 🌸Brooklyn B꧃ridge to City Hall.
The organizers, barred from electioneering, don’t mention de Blasio by name, but it’s no secret that leaders of charter schools, which are mostly nonunion, privately🐻 ꦜrun and publicly funded, are alarmed at de Blasio’s positions.