Teachers Take School Funding Fight Straight To North Carolina's Capitol
Educators marched on lawmakers' offices in Raleigh on Wednesday, with demands in hand — including better pay and more school funding. Meanwhile, schools closed across the state.
The months-long wave of teacher protests, which has rolled through roughly half a dozen states already, swelled and crashed on the front stoop of North Carolina's Capitol building Wednesday. Demonstrators donned red and gathered in the capital, Raleigh, to demand better pay and better school funding.
And there they stayed for hours, crowding into the opening session of the Legislature and eddying in the streets outside, gathering for a organized by the , the state's biggest
