K-12 schools unite for the future
Students and teachers from San Francisco's K-12 schools united to speak out against decreased funding for schools as part of a statewide unified protest. The next step they plan to take is to continue to spread information to the community about the effects the cuts will have on education.
Matthew Hardy, communications director of United Educators of San Francisco said they are encouraging "site-based activism" between school sites and the union because they believe the bond between students, parents and teachers is a "building block for structural change."
Another measure educators and the California State Parent Teacher Association are pushing for is the Local Control of Local Classrooms Funding Act, which is a proposal to amend the California Constitution so that special taxes for school districts can be approved by 55 percent vote as opposed to a two-thirds majority vote. This measure will bar the state from taking funds from schools or accounting for them in calculating state support.