Around 150 parents, teachers and students from Brooklyn’s Community School District 15 rallied and picketed outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s midtown Manhattan offices on March 11, 17 days before the citywide rally in the same spot.

Erika Dagress, the chapter leader and a science teacher at PS 24, said she and two colleagues trekked to the rally from their Sunset Park school because Cuomo “is trying to break public education.”

Dagress said Cuomo’s proposed changes to teacher evaluation would hurt schools like hers that teach many high-needs students.

“He’s putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don’t speak English at home and don’t perform as well on standardized tests,” she said. “We teach kids with many challenges, but instead of being supported or rewarded we’re going to be punished.”

Parent Jane Higgins, whose son Rohan, 8, is in 2nd grade at Park Slope’s PS 295, said she did not want even more emphasis placed on high-stakes tests.

“I don’t want teachers forced to teach to the test just to keep their jobs,” she said. “There’s more to education than testing.”

Rohan said he had come out with his mother to the rally “to support my school and to stop Cuomo taking away money.”

What would he do with the $1.2 million the governor owes his school?

“I would have more art classes,” Rohan said.