Hundreds of high school students joined the walkout, meeting at the Tweed Courthouse on Chambers Street, which currently serves as Department of Education headquarters in New York City.
Protest plans obtained by the Daily News called for students to stand up during class and start chanting slogans before heading out of their school building, and by mid-afternoon, about 400 protesters had converged on the central offices of the Department of Education in Lower Manhattan.
Hundreds of students walked out of school, from several schools including Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Technical High School, LaGuardia High School, and more.
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