Former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown took aim at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s war on charter schools during a speech Monday evening.
"In the coming months, and years Mayor de Blasio has to choose between making a comfortable interest group more comfortable, or being a true force for good in the lives of New York City’s children. And like anyone who holds that office he can protect the status quo, or he can protect the public interest, but he can’t do both," Brown said at the Success Academy Spring benefit.
NY Post reports:
Monday’s dinner to support charter schools followed the pattern and featured big-name financiers, but it didn’t end with happy talk about spring flowers and garden parties. This was no ordinary celebration — it was a stirring call to arms to fix education. And it marked a coming-out party for Campbell Brown, the former TV journalist who now calls herself an "activist in the fight."
"This is right versus wrong," Brown said in a rousing speech aimed aim at Gotham’s political establishment. "There is no middle ground."
She cited Mayor de Blasio for echoing the teachers union’s anti-charter stance, warning he must "choose between making a comfortable interest group more comfortable, or being a true force for good in the lives of children. He can protect the status quo, or he can protect the public interest, but he can’t do both."