 Photo: Liz Lowengard |
Thousands of Baltimore public high school students went on strike for the first three days of March to protest insufficient state funding and threatened school closings. Organized by members of the Baltimore Algebra Project—a student-led civil rights organization—striking students stormed the Maryland State Board of Education and the Baltimore City School Board to demand smaller classes, better programs and repairs to devastated school buildings. Racist governors in Maryland, New York and many other states deny billions in court-ordered funding to urban school districts. In an effort to hold them accountable, students risked suspension, expulsion and jail. The militant students wore the Red X as a symbol for their slogan, “No Education, No Life.”
