LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2008 – Over 40,000 Los Angeles teachers sacrificed an hour of their pay to protest the proposed state budget cuts on Friday. The hour-long protests were held in front of the schools as students entered the campus and administrators were relegated to supervising children.
At Belvedere Elementary School in East Los Angeles, about 300 parents, teachers and students banged drums, shook maracas and hoisted bilingual signs reading "Save our schools," some hand-lettered in crayon and marker. "This affects all of us in the state. It's worth losing an hour [of school] if it gets kids Schwarzenegger's attention, because if they take everything away that would be worse," parent Lizbeth Roman, 25, of East L.A. said in Spanish as she marched with her three children, chanting, "More money for education!"
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