Charter-school parents and students are planning a massive rally next month targeted at Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, The Post 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 proposed to charge charters rent for government-owned space, which critics say would effectively force them to shut down.
Republican rival Joe Lhota has vowed to expand school choice.
Success Academy Charter Schools CEO Eva Moskowitz sent out a letter asking parents to join the Oct. 8 demonstration.
“Your 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 children’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 Bridge 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 run and publicly funded, are alarmed at de Blasio’s positions.