back in 2018, 2019, teacher walk outs in arizona and kentucky, getting their demands back and lots of accountability, squashing competition from charters and post pandemic a real turnaround. the mayor of new york and school chancellor, the largest school system in the country, school choice friendly a huge deal and i like to see it replicated. now you have a much less hostile relationship between school choice advocates and people in city hall and people running the schools and that is all well and good for the kids. the big issue is the cap on
schools to shut down. our denver affiliate has the story. the first of two straight days of teacher walk-outs in colorado. thousands of educators, mostly from douglas and jefferson county schools, descending upon the state capital asking lawmakers for more funding, better pay and yes, protections for their retirement. i have, you know, collected some receipts of all these supplies i have had to self-fund. heidi from douglas county schools wore a skirt made of receipts to show how much money she s put into her classroom, money that will never be reimbursed. i feel embarrassed asking my students to bring in kleenex so i buy boxes of collie nix kleenex. i m hoping to talk to a representative. we are grading papers.