It’s always a beautiful thing when people come together for a great cause! The #DontStealPossible rally went down in Foley Square, NYC on Thursday, with over 21.000 parents and teachers coming together to raise awareness and take a stand against the education crisis in NYC.

New York moms and dads are set to make history today: They’ll be out on the streets — by the thousands — deploring the pathetic state of Gotham’s public schools.

They want change. Big, bold change. More power to them.

Thousands of parents and other charter school backers jammed Foley Square Thursday for a spirited rally in support of charters as the best possible alternative to the city’s many failing public schools.

Thursday’s sure-to-be raucous education rally, to be held within shouting distance of the Tweed building and City Hall, is a timely reminder of a civic force that many of the city’s progressive leaders seem incapable of understanding: the thousands of engaged and enraged parents demanding swift and fundamental improvement of a public school system that fails city kids by the tens of thousands.

Success Academy Charter Schools Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz on what to do about New York City’s failing public schools.

I am a 7th grade math teacher at Success Academy Harlem West, a public charter school in New York City. After the well-documented success of our middle school students last year, I heard from people all across the country who want to know exactly what we are doing in the classroom that leads to such tremendous academic achievement.

In this three-part series, we analyze Success Academy’s performance on the just-released 2014 New York state assessments, attempt to evaluate claims that Success Academy’s achievement may be the result of biased inputs, and finally look at some aspects of the model which make the school unique.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success — and no students registered more jaw-dropping results on this year’s English and math tests than those attending the 22 charter schools run by Success Academy Network.