Asian-American parents latest group to rally to increase NYC charter schools

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Asian parents are holding a rally Friday outside the city DOE headquarters to demand that resistant state lawmakers raise the cap on charter schools.

But some frustrated Asian parents have complained that their kids have been languishing on charter school waiting lists for two years, Wong said.

He pointed out that Liu, his wife and his son all benefited from specialized high schools — alternative choice schools for gifted learners — but the state senator, who is chairman of the committee on New York City Education, is fighting charter expansion for other parents’ kids.

He said he knows three parents who are commuting one hour each way from southern Brooklyn so their kids can attend charter schools in Manhattan. Phil Wong, president of the Chinese American Citizens Council of New York, called state Sen. John Liu a hypocrite for opposing charter schools.Charter schools are publicly funded, privately run schools that typically have a longer school day and year than traditional public school students.on the state’s standardized Math and English Language Arts exams, a Post series revealed.

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