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Grassroots Parent Activist Group Organizes Bubble-Blowing Campaign to Draw Attention to Education Budget

Grassroots Parent Activist Group Organizes Bubble-Blowing Campaign to Draw Attention to Education Budget

LAFAYETTE -- Parents and children stood in the rain Thursday blowing bubbles and holding signs to express dissatisfaction with the state's education budget. Their message: "Don't blow it."

The statewide public awareness campaign was coordinated by the grass-roots group Educate our State to coincide with March 15 -- the day school districts in California issue pink slips to notify teachers that they could lose their jobs in June.

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