PressTV-Thousands of US teachers strike to demand higher pay

Thousands of teachers have staged a protest rally for a second day in different parts of the US state of Oklahoma, demanding higher pay and increased education funding.

An estimated 30,000 educators walked off their jobs across the Midwestern state on Tuesday and classes for some 500,000 public school students were canceled.

Educators gathered in the state capital, Oklahoma City, chanting “fund our schools,” and “we’re not leaving.”

Teachers rally outside the state Capitol on the second day of a teacher walkout to demand higher pay and more funding for education in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US, April 3, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)

Oklahoma’s largest teachers union has called for a $10,000 pay raise for teachers over the next three years and is also seeking an increase of $75 million in state education funding.

The president of the Oklahoma Education Association, Alicia Priest, called on all teachers to join the protest to pressure…

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