In Oklahoma, schools remain closed for a fourth day as teachers across the state continue to strike for better pay and increased funding for education. On Wednesday, teachers rallied inside the state House in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma teachers: “We’re not leaving! We’re not leaving! We’re not leaving! We’re not leaving!”

Oklahoma teacher: “This is not enough. This simple Amazon bill or the ball-and-dice bill that’s being heard in the Senate are not enough to fully fund education and to make up for the breaks and for the cuts that we’ve had the past 10 years. And so, this is a great start, but educators will not leave this Capitol until education is fully funded again.”

More than 100 Oklahoma teachers have set off on a 100-mile, 7-day march from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the state Capitol building, where they’ll join tens of thousands more teachers. Meanwhile, in related news, teachers’ protests continued yesterday in Kentucky’s capital, Frankfort. Two hundred protesters marched down Capitol Avenue, some invoking Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination and urging Kentuckians to fight a move to gut their pension benefits.