Before the first bell rang at Pueblo High School on Tucson’s south side Wednesday morning, teachers and teacher allies performed a “walk-in” to protest cuts to the Department of Education .
Wednesday morning’s “walk-in” was a form of protest. Rather than having it during school hours, they spotlighted the issue before class to avoid any interruptions to students. It was part of a national event organized by the National Education Association .
They’re protesting funding cuts to the DOE that could affect things like special education and supplemental services like speech therapy.
“These funding cuts are really going to affect schools like us first,” said Cristobal Barajas, an English teacher at Pueblo. “It’s going to be the low-income schools; the schools that have a large Hispanic or non-English speaking population; schools that have a lot of support for special education.”
Barajas is part of the Pueblo Education Association, the group that organized the event for their respective school…