Via NY Post:
Thousands of fired-up charter school supporters descended on City Hall Wednesday demanding that Mayor de Blasio put an end to education inequality by expanding the number of charters.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., a potential mayoral candidate in 2017, promised the crowd he would “always be a supporter of charter schools” and echoed demands that the mayor give parents more options for their kids.
“Mr. Mayor, what we’re saying here today is this: The public-schools system is your system. Charter schools are a part of that system, and all we want from you, Mr. Mayor, is to treat them equitably,” Diaz told the crowd, which marched en masse in a sea of red T-shirts over the Brooklyn Bridge from an earlier rally in Cadman Plaza.
Organizers estimated the size of the crowd at 18,500.One parent after another took the microphone to tell how charters had saved their kids from failing neighborhood schools.