Charter schools stage mass political march across Brooklyn Bridge
The new ‘Three Rs’ for charter schools: ‘Reading, ‘Riting and Rallying’
Thousands of high-energy New York City charter school kids got to skip school on Tuesday morning.
Instead of prepping for high-stakes tests, elementary-age charter students were bussed to Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn where they were given yellow T-shirts and signs protesting mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio’s plan to charge rent to charter schools.
Kids, parents and teachers chanting “No Rent” marched over the Brooklyn Bridge as speakers from the Success Academy charter school chain exhorted them from a bandstand set up near the bridge’s entrance.