2019 Virginia teachers' walkout
The 2019 Virginia teachers' walkout (also known as RedForEd) is a teachers' walkout and protest that began on January 28, 2019, with teachers in Virginia walking out in protest of low school budgets and low teacher wages outside of Northern Virginia. Background. The walkout was influenced in part of the larger wave of teachers' strikes in the United States, especially in the wake of the teacher's strike in Los Angeles. Response. The Virginia House of Delegates' leadership proposed in the 2019–20 fiscal budget a five percent pay raise for teachers across the Commonwealth. 2019 Virginia