Nineteen elected officials signed a letter throwing their support behind the city’s charter schools days ahead of an upcoming demonstration in favor of the publicly funded, privately run schools.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who has been mentioned as a possible challenger to Mayor Bill de Blasio in a Democratic primary next year, will be the keynote speaker for a charter school march hosted by Families for Excellent Schools and charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in Prospect Park next week.

As predicted, the city Department of Education is maneuvering to deny space to charter schools looking to open or expand next fall.

This, despite a Citizens Budget Commission study that shows lots of underused schools in precisely the neighborhoods where 25 charters are requesting space

Lower-income areas with bad public schools have lots of unused space. And that’s where charters want to open: Their mission is to provide hope to just such kids.

Doubling the number of the city’s privately run, publicly funded charter schools in the city’s lowest-performing districts would bring student performance in those neighborhoods up to par, a new report by a pro-charter school lobbying group claims.

Black life matters, but black education, just like black trust, matters too.

A record number of students at the city’s largest charter school network are participating in extracurricular activities this new school year, network officials said.

More than 9.000 Success Academy students are cheerleading, playing soccer, studying chess and enjoying other activities in 350 different clubs in the network’ school year that began Aug. 15.

Charter school organization Success Academy opened two new schools in Queens this week in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica, bringing the total number of its schools in the borough to four.

The Far Rockaway school, located at 10-45 Nameoke St., and the South Jamaica school at 120-27 141 St., the former site of the John Adams High School Jumpstart Academy, are opening with grades K-1, while the organization’s Rosedale and Springfield Gardens locations are serving students from grades K through 3. The latter two schools started class Aug. 15.

Recent math test results coming out of a charter school in the south Bronx have been off the charts!

Success Academy Bronx 1, located at 339 Morris Avenue, within the Paul Robeson School Complex, has shown excellence and achievement with their most recent test scores in math.

Charter-school students with-disabilities and English language learners are outperforming their public-school peers on state exams, according to new data.