On Friday April 9th 2004, nearly 1000 students, parents and teachers departed from San Pablo in a 70 mile march to Sacramento to protest for equality in education funding, the full funding of Proposition 98, and the elimination of West Contra Costa Unified School District debt. Marching through Vallejo and Fairfield, the marchers rallied at Solono State Prison in Vacaville on Monday April 12th. The march then went through Vacaville and Dixon arriving in Davis on Wednesday April 14th. On April 15th, marchers rallied with UC Davis students at the UC Davis Quad. The March ended with a rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Friday April 16th. Marchers testified about the plight of California schools in a legislative hearing room, but neither legislators nor the governor showed up to listen. Five marchers now plan to go on a hungerstrike May 3rd to call attention to the plight of the West Contra Costa school district.
On Monday April 26th, there will be an Education Forum in Berkeley and on April 27 there will be a noon rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento. The next meeting of the March for Education Committee will be on Sunday April 25th in Richmond.
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