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Teacher walkouts in Arizona, Colorado closing schools as educators demand more funding

CBS News: A wave of red-clad Arizona teachers will crash upon the state Capitol on Thursday for an unprecedented job action that will close schools for a majority of the state's public school students, part of an educator uprising that's also bubbled up in Colorado. Around 30,000 to 50,000 teachers and their supporters are expected to march through Phoenix to rally at the Arizona state Capitol to demand a 20 percent raise for teachers, about $1 billion to return school funding to pre-Great Recession levels and increased pay for support staff, among other things.

Teachers said they won't return to work until they feel their message has been heard, CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas reports. Second-grade teacher Alexis Aguirre told Yuccas that living paycheck to paycheck has forced her to consider other careers.

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