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NJ Students Walk Out to Protest Budget Cuts

04/28/2010 8:55 am 0 comments

Source: Glenn Zimmerman / NBCNewYork.com / MSNBC.com

Thousands of students throughout New Jersey pledged on a Facebook page to walkout of class at 8 a.m. today to protest budget cuts which are slashing school programs.

At Montclair High School hundreds of students walked out of classes at the stroke of eight, chanting, “No more budget cuts.”

By midday, walkouts were reported from Rancocas Valley High School in Mount Holly to West Orange High School. Students in Newark marched by the thousands from City Hall down Broad Street to Military Park.

The Facebook page (created by someone who appears to be a former student turned activist) says more than 17,500 have already pledged to walkout and another 14,700 have said they might.

To read this article in its entirety visit MSNBC.com.

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