Annual May Day Protest Led By Group Affiliated With Teacher Unions, Forces School Closures Across North Carolina

Today on May Day, the North Carolina Association of Educators, which is affiliated national teacher unions, will hold its annual protests to demand for higher education spending without accountability and oppose Opportunity Scholarships. Notably, the North Carolina General Assembly is out of session today, but the organization picked May Day because of its historic significance to Communist and other progressives.  

Strikes by public sector unions in North Carolina are illegal and this action will close several school districts across the state. On Facebook, the NCAE is touting the closure of: Alamance-Burlington, Asheboro City, Asheville City, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, Charlotte Mecklenburg, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Gaston, Guilford, Kannapolis City, Mooresville, Nash, Orange, Pitt, Thomasville City, Winston-Salem/Forsyth, and Wake County.   

The Raleigh News and Observer reports that over 700,000 public school students will not have class today because of the action taken by North Carolina Association of Educators.  

Speaker Hall and Senate Leader Berger said that they were already committed to public education and that the NCAE’s are just an extension of left-wing politics.