When thousands of teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked out of classrooms in January to protest swelling classroom sizes and low pay, many of their students picketed alongside them. After a week of striking, the teachers won a raise, stricter caps on class sizes, and a promise by the district to hire more nurses and librarians. Now, LAUSD students want their own revolution.
Young people have taken up the mantle of movements for climate action, gun control, and prison reform in recent years. But most can’t vote on legislation affecting these issues until they turn 18.
