Teachers picket around the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday.
Credit: Sue Ogrocki / AP
All public schools in Kentucky and many in Oklahoma were closed on Monday as thousands of teachers walked out to strike for better wages.
Heather Cody, an Oklahoma teacher and a single mother struggling to stretch her current paycheck, said she will be among the thousands of teachers walking off the job on Monday.
“I’m not walking out on my children or my students,” Cody said. “I’m walking out for my students.”
Approximately 30,000 people were expected to descend on the Oklahoma state Capitol to demand lawmakers approve more education funding days after the state Legislature approved educators’ first pay raise in 10 years.
Several educators at the Oklahoma rally said their greatest concern was more funding for their schools.
One teacher held a sign that simply read, “5,655” — the amount of money she’d raised over the last two years for basic supplies for her students.
Jason Simeroth, the superintendent for Canadian County’s Yukon public schools, told […]
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