San Francisco: Day of education protests heat up

All lanes of Interstate-880 in downtown Oakland were shut down temporarily in the middle of rush hour after a splinter group of people protesting cuts to education entered the highway just before 5:00 p.m., The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The action came as thousands of students, teachers and others rallied today at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and many other schools across the Bay Area and beyond. They expressed anger and frustration over the decline in funding for California’s beleaguered public education system.