One in six New York City public-school children now attend public charter schools — with tens of thousands more, mostly poor and minority, stuck on waitlists because state law blocks new charters from opening. Yet the mayoral frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani, not only supports that “cap,” he wants to evict existing charters from their buildings.
Hence Thursday’s charter march across the Brooklyn Bridge, as more than 15,000 charter parents and supporters came out to declare: “Excellence Is a Civil Right.”
Meaning excellence in education, which all charters aim for and the sector largely delivers — certainly far better than the regular public-school system…