high school. >>> a check of attendance records indicates that more than 600 kids attended the protest. it was very peaceful and very organized. >> these logan high school students air is they know they should be in class. they know the district loses money when they aren't in school but they felt so desperate they walked out anybody. >> not getting a lot of money, but we're not getting money at all. we've given up $10 million already. >> teachers have declared a state of emergency and organized a variety of protests against cuts to education. in alameda in morning, teachers handed how the leaflets. in sacramento they are conducting sit-ins at the capital. >> yesterday, may 9th, protestors -- >> it's intense in union city because of parcel tax just failed this week to help schools by 32 votes. extracurricular activities and school counselors will get cut unless the state steps in. >> it's bad for logan. this is my home. i love it here. i'm really thinking about the students come in and choir students are going to be here when i leave. >> in parents showed up at the protest not to scold them but to support them. >> doing a great job. >> repor

high school. >>> a check of attendance records indicates that more than 600 kids attended the protest. it was very peaceful and very organized. >> these logan high school students air is they know they should be in class. they know the district loses money when they aren't in school but they felt so desperate they walked out anybody. >> not getting a lot of money, but we're not getting money at all. we've given up $10 million already. >> teachers have declared a state of emergency and organized a variety of protests against cuts to education. in alameda in morning, teachers handed how the leaflets. in sacramento they are conducting sit-ins at the capital. >> yesterday, may 9th, protestors -- >> it's intense in union city because of parcel tax just failed this week to help schools by 32 votes. extracurricular activities and school counselors will get cut unless the state steps in. >> it's bad for logan. this is my home. i love it here. i'm really thinking about the students come in and choir students are going to be here when i leave. >> in parents showed up at the protest not to scold them but to support them. >> doing a great job. >> repor

>> hundreds of students showed up at district offices this morning right next to james logan high school. the district is planning budget cuts that would cut sports, music and drama programs. rally organizer, rolanzo says the cuts would be drastic. >> they are cutting potential fors us -- for us as well. if our coach wasn't here, i could be dead. >> measure b would generate about $00 a year for four years. students are also planning a fund-raising drive raced to safe. it's an event that takes place to raise $500,000 to save the students. >>> aimee cooper is still missing. her father said she's been recently treated for depression. aimee is described as 5'5" with blue eyes and died red hair. anyone who has seen her should calm alameda police -- call alameda police. >>> pulling the plug on b.a.r.t.'s program would be too much money spent. that would be money down the drain, they are reporting, if it was cancelled. the best strategy is to contain the costs going forward. >>> b.a.r.t. has a new plan to install 75 tv screens in its stations. the screens would show information about train sche

. >> reporter: this morning about 350 students from union city's james logan high school staged a loudprotest over proposed cuts to their education. last year, voters narrowly rejected measure b, a partial tax that would have brought $3 million per year to local schools. >> i really do care about this. i don't know why they would say no to this. >> now, the students face the real prospect that their sports and other extra curricular activities could be gone or become pay to play by next school year. >> i'm really thinking about the students that are coming in and the choir students that are going to be here when i leave. how will they feel they they have to pay a whole bunch of money to just be in a scwier. >> i learned so much from watching my kids grow in sports and activities that for them to be without these things they wouldn't be the great people they are today. >> for community and children very frustrating. know if i want to play football or play in the band or be a cheer leader i'm not going to be able to do that. right now we can't tell them. we don't have the money because s

. >> justine: students at james logan high school are protesting budget cuts to get you more news fasteris live right now in union city with more on the protest. >> reporter: hard to believe but this a long and parking lot was filled with 500 students protesting state budget and what came down to a local issue of position be which is a partial tax that loss by few votes it means less extra curriculum for students here. this is the guy along with a friend who organized the rally to express frustration. you were explaining what this means that you don't have. because the parcel tax didn't pass it is going to hurt extracurricular. >> it eliminates money for coaches and staff its crippling students. it's a little over the years and wheeler going to face cuts i'm a senior it won't affect me. i understand how much it's done for me and i think it's criminal. >> reporter: you said this was the straw that but the camel's back. >> it's been happening for years, always when anything happens on the education system we rely on our parents to do something. and we don't do anything. it's time we need t

logan high walked out of class in a protest of their own. just last week union city voters narrowly rejected a parcel tax that would have brought $3 million per year to local schools. >> i really do care about this. i don't know why they would say no. >> we are not doing it out of anger. it is to voice our concerns to the community and to the parents. >> and in milpitas, they are protesting budget cuts and they lined the boulevard. 65 teachers could lose their jobs in that district alone. >>> san diego's d.a. filed a civil suit challenging former governor's schwarzenegger's to commute the manslaughter sentence of esteban nunez. schwarzenegger said he did it as a favor for nunez's father, fabian nunez. he is accused of stabbing a man to death near san diego state university. schwarzenegger cut his sentence from 16 to seven years without notifying santos' family. san diego's d.a. says that violated state law by denying the constitutional rights of the victim and his family to be heard. >> arnold schwarzenegger showed more compassion for a killer than for any of the four vic i'm its that night. -- victims that night. >> santos' parents are not part of the san diego l