RICH PEDRONCELLI / AP
Jennifer Raeder, a second grade teacher at Sunnyside Elementary school in San Francisco, who has already received a pink slip, joined more than 200 other teachers and supporters in a demonstration against proposed budget cuts to education in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 9, 2011. Teachers from across the state began gathering Monday for a weeklong series of protests over the threat of deep budget cuts to public education and are calling on lawmakers to extend temporary increase to the sales, personal income and vehicle taxes that will expire June 30.
SACRAMENTO — More than 60 protesters were arrested Monday evening at the state Capitol after they refused to break up a peaceful demonstration in the Rotunda after the building's scheduled 6 p.m. closure.
The arrests marked the end of the first day of a week of budget protests being staged simultaneously by education groups led by the California Teachers Association and a coalition of peace and social justice groups that included top officials of the state Peace and Freedom Party.
Those arrested were mostly college-age protesters from the San Francisco Bay area, but also included about a dozen schoolteachers, including the president of the Oakland Education Association, the union that represents 2,700 teachers in the Oakland Unified
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