{"id":161687,"date":"2026-04-20T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161687"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:03","slug":"nc-schools-closing-may-1-as-teachers-plan-mass-protest-in-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161687","title":{"rendered":"NC Schools Closing May 1 as Teachers Plan Mass Protest in Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Charlotte Observer | April 16, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome North Carolina school districts are canceling classes on May 1 because they say so many teachers are planning to take May Day off to participate in a mass protest in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Association of Educators is encouraging teachers to call out of work on May 1 to march on the Legislative Building in Raleigh to lobby for more state funding for public education. In response, some districts such as Chatham County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City schools are closing on May 1, with several other districts considering a schedule change as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The North Carolina Association of Educators is in fact planning a day of action for teachers to advocate and to find voice and use their voice to advocate professionally across the state,\u2019 Chatham County Superintendent Anthony Jackson told the school board.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At a time when teachers should be preparing their students for critical exams, they\u2019re instead keeping kids out of their classrooms,\u2019 Lauren Horsch, a spokesperson for Senate leader Phil Berger, said in a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/article315430726.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Observer | April 16, 2026 \u201cSome North Carolina school districts are canceling classes on May 1 because they say so many teachers are planning to take May Day off to participate in a mass protest in Raleigh. The North Carolina Association of Educators is encouraging teachers to call out of work on May 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161694,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161687\/revisions\/161694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}