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Laying out their demands: Students, who don't want schools closing until class sizes are reduced, begin three days of demonstrations against the city's cost-saving plan.

The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

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Byline: Sara Neufeld

Mar. 2--Young bodies sprawled out across the cold sidewalk on West Baltimore Street yesterday. There were at least 400 of them in all, Baltimore public school students, lying still as if they were dead.

They hoped the officials across the street and safely inside at the Maryland State Department of Education would hear their cry:

"No education, no life." It was Day 1 of a three-day student strike, protesting the impending closure of several Baltimore school buildings. Today, the students will be outside the city school system headquarters on North Avenue. Tomorrow's stop is City Hall. Under the leadership of the Baltimore Algebra Project, the students are demanding that no schools close until the city school system reduces all class sizes to 20…

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