Scenes From the Demonstrations Over Education Cuts - Bay Area Blog - NYTimes.com

Scenes From the Demonstrations Over Education Cuts - Bay Area Blog - NYTimes.com

Scenes From the Demonstrations Over Education Cuts

By ANNA BLOOM AND ARMAND EMAMDJOMEH

In the Bay Area on Thursday, it was hard to go anywhere without running into people marching or a teacher handing out flyers, all part of the national protest over education cuts, as we wrote in a continually updated blog post.

Public schools like Oakland Technical High School held disaster drills, as described by Oakland North, and people marched from the Mission Districtin San Francisco to the Civic Center, where the day concluded with a rally, as described by Mission Local.

In Sacramento, about 1,000 people used “drums, bullhorns, and scores of young voices to try to get their message across,” as Jesse McKinley wrote in The New York Times.

About 150 people were arrested for being part of a blockage of an interstate in Oakland on Thursday afternoon, according to Oakland Local. The freeway