Tag: National School Walkout
Student-led walkout becomes memorial, call to action
Joining thousands of teenagers across the nation, Alhambra High School students left their classrooms at 10 a.m. Wednesday for a brief program to remember 17 slain last month during an attack on a Florida high school and to tell civic leaders they need to take action to address gun violence. Before the crowd that gathered […]
School district prepares for student walkout
Organizers of the Jan. 21, 2017, Women’s March protests have called for a student walkout Wednesday to object to Congress’s “inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods.” Martinez Unified School District Superintendent C.J. Cammack said he anticipates that local students may join […]
