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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education has agreed to cancel classes so teachers can attend a protest.
Educators will be taking to the streets on May 1 to march for more funding, and the day will be marked down on the calendar as an optional workday. Those who opt to attend the protest, put together by the North Carolina Association of Educators, will gather in the capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.
🚨#BREAKING: Charlotte NC just CANCELLED SCHOOL so thousands of teachers could go and PROTEST on Friday, May 1st.
Nearly 150,000 children will now be STAYING HOME on Friday so their teachers can protest for:
"Kids Over Corporations…"
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING????!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ZiUm0Xk1nY
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 24, 2026
“The CMS board called an emergency meeting Friday after over 1,875 of the district’s around 9,000 total educators had requested leave by Wednesday evening, according to public records. On May 1 last year, for comparison, there were 1,210 teacher absences. A total of 2,622 teachers had requested leave by 6 a.m. Friday,” The Charlotte Observer reported on Friday…
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