Rally gets legislators' attention on education funding mandate
Includes video
Share
Tweet
Last updated 1/18/2017 at 11:23pm
Grace Swanson, WNPA Olympia News Bureau
Students, parents, and educators from across Washington gathered at the state's Capitol to communicate their need for more state funding.
Olympia - More than 6,500 students, educators, and parents assembled across the capitol steps Monday, Jan. 16, to shout out their frustrations over the state's failure to fund basic education, its constitutional duty.
Speakers at the Rally for Student Civil Rights and Amply Funded Public Schools referred to Dr. Martin Luther King's fight for equality. Monday was his Day.
"In honoring Martin Lu...
For access to this article please
sign in or
subscribe.
Reader Comments(0)