Thousands of Teachers. 4 States. Your Guide to the Protests Sweeping the Nation
April 4, 2018
By: Madeline Will
Source: Education Week
Today marks day three of the Oklahoma teacher walkout—and local reports say that crowds are showing no signs of diminishing.
The walkout will continue tomorrow—Oklahoma City schools, along with several other districts, have already announced they will be closed. Still, some teachers have been yanked back to the classroom: Officials of a small school district in Oklahoma City told teachers they could be disciplined if they didn’t report back to work.
However, teachers still have community support—a poll commissioned by the Oklahoma Education Association and conducted this week found that 77 percent of Oklahomans support teachers. Nearly 70 percent of the 464 people surveyed said they support a teacher walkout—an uptick from the 58 percent who supported the walkout last week.
How did teachers get here? Here’s a roundup of Education Week‘s reporting on the teacher walkouts and protests in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, and Kentucky.