CHARTER SCHOOL RALLY--15 year-old Mark Fessel, of Akron, holds a sign as he joins hundreds at a rally at the Ohio Statehouse to protest the state's proposed budget bill, that would cut funding to charter schools, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, May 4, 2005. Mark is a student at the Ohio Distance Electronic Learning Academy. The rally was sponsored by the Ohio Coalition of eSchool Families. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)