Forsyth County teachers, staff and community members piled onto buses early Friday morning to head to Raleigh for the May 1st Kids Over Corporations protest.
Thousands of school workers across the state will be gathering at Halifax Mall, urging legislators to make a greater investment in public education. WFDD Education Reporter Amy Diaz talked to some of the rallygoers on the bus about what brought them out:
Exceptional Children Teacher Lee Childress: “We don’t have a budget, and our people are struggling, and a report came out yesterday that we’ll see the first decrease of any state in this country in pay and in resources because they have not passed the budget. So it’s time.”…