The Washington Post – Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
“Students at 110 college campuses across the country planned to walk out of class Thursday to march for an affordable education. The aptly named Million Student March has been months in the making, inspired by national campaigns to boost minimum wages, explained Beth Huang, a coordinator for the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), an initiative of a labor union and foundation-funded group called Jobs with Justice…“The march is about mobilizing students across the country to shape the national conversation about what college costs look like today, especially in an age of student debt, low wages and high tuition.””(more)