About 25.000 students, parents, and educators marched in Prospect Park today alongside city officials, including Central Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and rap artist Common in support of New York City’s public charter school system to double in size to serve 200.000 students by 2020.

Thousands of parents, students and educators were joined by rapper Common in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for New York City to double its public charter school sector to 200.000 students by 2020.

“Four years ago, it was like only 60.000 kids,” organizer Yvonne Guillen said. “And now four years down the line, we have 100.000. I think it’s doable.”

This year’s Path to Possible March marks something remarkable: Truly equal educational opportunity is now in reach.

Thousands of charter students, parents, teachers and prominent elected officials will march Wednesday. Heading the parade are such prominent voices for justice as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and actor/activist Common.

Earlier this month, Families for Excellent Schools put out a report proving that public charter schools are the Path to Possible for the highest-need kids in New York City. They have been responsible for almost all of the gains made in the worst performing school districts.

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.