Education

On March 4, students and educators throughout California will demonstrate against state budget cuts that have slashed finances at public schools and raised student fees throughout the UC system. Oakland North presents a special news package, with all-day, three-city coverage of the protests and the story behind them.

Protests against budget cuts to education are attracting student activists from around the globe. Ten Japanese students were among those that attended the March 4 protests.

While nearly 2,000 people were protesting cuts to higher and K-12 education on the Oakland streets, most Oakland Tech students were in class. Those that stayed – including one particular Spanish class – got a lesson about California’s funding crisis.

Students at Oakland Technical High School participated in a “disaster drill” to draw attention to the state of emergency of education as part of the March 4th Day of Action

From Berkeley to the 880 Freeway, students and other community members joined a march to fight for public education and against the state budget cuts.

With more than a thousand students, faculty members and other education advocates rallying outside the state capitol, Democrats seized on the opportunity to voice their support for revenue-raising measures, including the proposed oil extraction tax.

Last Monday about two hundred African-American students, dressed in black, linked arms and stood in silence across Sather gate to protest recent racial incidents at UC San Diego.

Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of students and teachers from throughout Oakland and Berkeley assembled downtown in front of City Hall to protest education budget cuts.

As California lawmakers debated budget fixes on the Senate floor, hundreds of students, teachers and parents from California school systems—K-12 through the University of California—gathered on the Capitol’s north steps to protest cuts to public education.