North Carolina’s Teacher Revolt Was Decades in the Making
by Paul Blest and Nick Martin on Splinter, shared by from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3QF30)

A derecho of red shirts swept through Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday as thousands of teachers and their allies flooded the capitol, in defiance of the pouring rain, to demand better conditions in their state's public schools.