Education protest at Pershing Square
Teachers, parents and students gather at Pershing Square to protest state budget cuts and to urge legislators to put measures on the ballot to fund education.
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Santee Education Complex student Ismael Lopez carries classmate Sileny Mejia as they join hundreds of others at the downtown Los Angeles protest.
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A.J. Duffy, United Teachers Los Angeles president, speaks to protesters. The budget proposal by Republican state lawmakers does not include tax extensions that educators say are essential to preserve educational quality. “If we don’t get the extension, then public education in California will die,” Duffy said at a news conference.
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Demonstrators walk along Olive Street on their way to the protest.
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California Teachers Assn. members, in front, shout at the downtown rally. The union’s president, David Sanchez, was arrested Thursday with 25 others in Sacramento after they refused to leave lawmakers’ offices. They were released Friday morning, a union spokeswoman said.
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A demonstrator flies the California flag upside down in protest.
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LAUSD arts teachers put on a mock funeral procession.
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Anabella Maldonaldon, 5, perched on the shoulders of her father, George, shouts during a protest in Los Angeles. Anabella’s mother, Linda, was laid off from her teaching job at Hazeltine School in March.
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