Wake up, liberals! Charter schools are saving kids from illiteracy

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00:00Progressive politicians are crazy for not supporting public charter schools.

00:05I'm a proud Bronx native, proud Bronx charter school parent, and educator.

00:09I was the first in my family to graduate from college.

00:12This was not guaranteed. It was thanks to my mother.

00:15She believed that education was the path out of poverty.

00:18Many of my friends and family didn't make it into college

00:21because they lacked an adult who believed in them and fought for them.

00:25And so that's why when I graduated college and I joined Teach for America,

00:28I came back home.

00:30I started working at a school right up the block from where I grew up.

00:33Every single child in that school building could read.

00:37Every single child.

00:39This was not my experience growing up in school,

00:42and it definitely wasn't the experience in the surrounding school communities.

00:45So defunding or blocking charter schools would condemn generations of kids to failing schools.

00:52And yet progressive politicians who claim to speak for people like me

00:56discriminate against charters.

00:57They say charters steal from public schools.

01:00That makes no sense.

01:01Charter schools are public schools.

01:04And yet students in charter schools receive thousands less in funding than those who attend

01:09the district schools.

01:10New York City has put a cap on charter schools from opening.

01:14Putting a cap on access to excellent education doesn't seem very progressive to me.

01:19Not when these are the schools teaching kids how to read and write, which are the pathways

01:23to college.

01:24If you say you care about poor kids, then you need to support the schools that are helping

01:29them succeed.