Fired-up charter school advocates blasted the state Department of Education for “discriminatory treatment” as demonstrators pushing for equal funding rallied in Albany on Tuesday. “NYSED officials have either forgotten or are willfully ignoring the fact that charter schools are public schools,” said Miriam Raccah, CEO of the Black, Latinx and Asian Charter Collaborative, a nonprofit that serves 24 community-based schools across the state. “We are calling on NYSED to level-set the discrepancy in funding that puts our students of color in communities of need at the back of the class.” Miriam Raccah (pictured), CEO of the Black, Latinx and Asian...