Albany teachers rally for funding

[TexasTowelie]

It was hard for teachers Laura Bassani and Karin Heley to carry on a conversation Wednesday afternoon as they stood on Pacific Boulevard in Albany, car horns blaring. They were the hype crew.

“We think it would be nice for them to hear the cars honking,” Bassani said, gesturing over the fence and in the direction of the recess field at Central Elementary School in the distance, where spots of red were starting to appear.

Those spots would become groups and those groups would become a crowd of about 250 educators decked out in red shirts, joining in Wednesday's statewide demonstrations advocating for education funding.

“This is not pie in the sky, this is the bare minimum,” said Oregon Education Association representative Ken Volante. “This is the bare minimum and they’re $2 billion short right now.”

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