Parent Anthony Sanchez on why he and 13.000 other New Yorkers rallied for school choice in Albany Wednesday.

ALBANY — Lawmakers resign, and policies change, but charter schools continue to divide the two houses of the New York state Legislature.

The issue’s ability to galvanize supporters and inflame detractors — cutting across party lines and involving the flow of vast sums of money — was again apparent on Wednesday, as thousands of charter advocates rallied outside the Capitol building.

They were out in force again in Albany Wednesday, 13.000 strong — demanding better schools for New York’s kids.

The grounds of the state Capitol echoed Wednesday with voices of desperation over the terrible state of New York public schools — and the scandalous shortage of will to fix them.

The “Don’t Steal Possible” rally drew thousands of New York City kids, parents and teachers…

In Albany on Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio said he should be held fully accountable for struggling schools, and that “by virtue of elections, the people get to act on their views.”

But so far, he has done nothing to fix this crisis, and no child in a failing school has three years to wait.

The large room, bathed in sunlight, was quiet except for the scribble of pencils, the click of the time clock and bump of the chess pieces hitting the board.

On Tuesday afternoon, Success Academy held it’s first ever all-girls chess tournament at it’s Harlem West middle school on 114th Street. The group of 32 charter schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, has had a robust program that teaches each student to play chess, said chess educator Sean O’Hanlon.

Success Academy Charter Schools Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz on new evidence that shows charter schools outperform traditional public-sector peers.

New York, NY —Forty-three string musicians from Success Academy Charter Schools had elite company for their first orchestral performance – musicians from the world-renowned New York Philharmonic – when they took the stage of the United Palace Theater on Saturday, Jan. 31.

Please take a moment to read the guest Op-Ed published along with this column. It is a moving story told by a mother, Alvena Destine, whose daughter, now in third grade, was rescued from low expectations by a Success Academy public charter school.

It is also the story of hundreds more children who could similarly be rescued, but whose futures have been called into doubt by Mayor de Blasio’s inability, at this point, to make good on his word.

Maybe you’ve heard: Charter schools systematically force out kids who can’t cut it on tests. And special education students. And ones with behavioral problems.

That’s what critics — from somewhat rational Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to outright hostile teachers union boss Michael Mulgrew — claim, to explain away the fact that some of the independently managed schools get results with low-income kids most district schools can only dream about.