Sacramento march for education
| March 26, 2010
SACRAMENTO--Nearly 8,000 students, faculty and staff marched in the state's capital on March 22 to fight budget cuts to education. People traveled from all over the state to participate.
"We rode on the bus for eight hours," said Marvin Jordan, a third year history student from Cal State Northridge. "We left at one o'clock last night."
In what has become an annual event, the Student Senate of California Community Colleges organized a day in March to send students to the capital to protest the crisis of budgetary priorities. The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest unions for faculty and staff, mobilized members in support of the cause, in addition to several California State University (CSU) student governing boards.
Demonstrators marched a mile through downtown Sacramento and converged on the capitol steps to hear representatives from Associated Students, union members and state legislators weigh in on important issues facing the state.
"Budget cuts are ruining my education," said Fptzie Sockel, a third-year economics