Teachers stage budget protests

Thousands of Los Angeles teachers wearing red T-shirts left their classrooms Friday and marched in front of their campuses in a one-hour protest against state budget cuts. Daily News.

The walkouts triggered none of the campus disruptions feared by Los Angeles Unified School District administrators, who had sought a court order to block the protests on grounds they would put students in harm's way.

At schools across the city, teachers, parents and students waved signs and chanted opposition to a budget that could cut as much as $353 million this year from the district's $13.9 billion budget.