NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON STATE : Teachers Walk Out to Air Pay Demands
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Chanting that they refused to “work for peanuts anymore,” at least a thousand teachers marched through downtown Seattle as more than 13,000 instructors across Washington state staged a one-day walkout to draw attention to their demands for a pay raise. The walkout by a quarter of the state’s 43,000 teachers gave about 200,000 public school students a day off that will have to be made up.
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