{"id":226745,"date":"2026-03-19T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:57:32","slug":"natomas-high-students-walk-out-in-solidarity-with-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226745\/","title":{"rendered":"Natomas High students walk out in solidarity with teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natomas High School students walked out of class Monday morning in solidarity with their teachers who have been striking<\/a> for five consecutive school days.<\/p>\n

Natomas Unified School District teachers have been striking since March 10, seeking raises and fully-paid health benefits<\/a>. A similar strike has been taking place for teachers in the neighboring Twin Rivers Unified School District<\/a> since March 5.<\/p>\n

Junior Elfie White co-organized the walkout in hopes that it would prompt the district to \u201cstop messing around with the union\u201d and give teachers what they are seeking.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my teachers mean so much to me, and they deserve what they\u2019re asking for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said that her classmates are \u201coutraged\u201d by conditions at their school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been shoving us into different classrooms throughout the day and there\u2019s been no actual learning happening, just busy work that they say will be graded but won\u2019t actually be graded,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want to stand in solidarity with our teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students left school after 9 a.m. and marched two miles to the district office where they rallied alongside teachers.<\/p>\n

The union and the district most recently met to bargaining Sunday afternoon, but no agreement was reached despite new health care proposals on both sides.<\/p>\n

Natomas teachers are seeking an 8.5% raise across two years, fully-paid health benefits for individuals and their dependents and caps on classroom sizes. The district is offering a 4% raise and a proposal to increase its contribution to the health care plan for educators and their dependents.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe Lupe Heredia, a school social worker at Natomas Unified School District, walks along Truxel Road in Sacramento during a Natomas High School student walkout in support of teachers on Monday. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Ashlyn Ashlyn Aravhna, 17, a senior at Natomas High School, joins a student walk out during a teachers strike on Monday outside of the Natomas Unified School District offices. Aravhna said she made the two-mile march from the high school to support her mother, who is a teacher. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Flo Flo Cofer, a candidate for Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, walks on Truxel Road with Natomas High School students during a walkout in support of a teachers strike on Monday. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Natomas Natomas High School students are helped across Truxel Road as they walk out to join a teachers strike on Monday. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Sacramento Sacramento Councilmember Karina Talamantes joins a Natomas High School student walkout during a teacher strike at Natomas High School on Monday. The students and teachers marched two miles from the school to the district office. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

This story was originally published March 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Hector Amezcua<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Hector Amezcua is an award-winning visual journalist for The Sacramento Bee. Fluent in Spanish, he is a Fresno State graduate in journalism and Chicano studies. He has worked for McClatchy since 1992, taking pictures at all three Bee newsrooms in California.\n <\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Jennah Pendleton<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Jennah Pendleton is an education reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered schools and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. She grew up in Orange County and is a graduate of the University of Oregon.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natomas High School students walked out of class Monday morning in solidarity with their teachers who have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91318,917,121,123,122,84291,79334],"class_list":["post-226745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-natomas-high-school","tag-natomas-unified-school-district","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-student-walkout","tag-teacher-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}