Several area school districts have changed their calendars so that students will be out of school on Friday, May 1, because thousands of educators are expected to march in downtown Raleigh that day.
The North Carolina Association of Educators is organizing a mass rally to support its “Kids Over Corporations” campaign. They’re calling for better funded schools, and a halt to upcoming corporate tax cuts in North Carolina that could further reduce school funding.
Last week, the school boards for Chatham County Schools, Guilford County Schools and Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools voted to change their calendars to make it a teacher workday or annual leave day. The school boards cited a large number of requests from educators for personal days — so many that it would be difficult to fill classes with substitute teachers…