At noon, marchers made their way onto the Fresno State campus from the corner of Shaw and Blackstone avenues.
The marchers, made up of teachers and students representing California’s three-tired system of education, traveled nearly two miles before merging with roughly one hundred protestors at the Peace Garden on campus who waited for their arrival.
Lisa Weston, president of the Fresno chapter of the California Faculty Association, said she decided to join the march because she was tired of begging for money.
“What we’re saying is education is what we need,” Weston said. “Education doesn’t need a bailout. Education is the bailout.”