Backers of charter schools hold NYC rally
Thousands of New York City charter school backers rallied Thursday to demand action to end what they described as a crisis of failing schools.
“We should not have to struggle to provide our kids with an equal and excellent education,” New York state Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, a Harlem Democrat, told the sign-waving parents, teachers and children gathered in in Foley Square in lower Manhattan.
He added, “How many generations of our children do we have to fail before we stand up for them?”