Charter school supporters protest

Holding up signs and sporting matching T-shirts, thousands of parents, students and teachers from charter schools across Los Angeles marched downtown Thursday to ask for more charter funds, protest potential cuts and announce formation of the first statewide charter advocacy group. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

Although charter schools have begun to work with Los Angeles Unified School District officials, families and teachers still complained about the district's treatment of charters.

"Charter schools are still not getting their fair share. They get $3,000 less per kid, and they don't get any facilities," said Jacqueline Elliot, who chairs and co-founded the new advocacy group, Families That Can, which organized the protest.