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Photograph by Alexandra Pais/New Jersey Local News Service

Students in high schools all over the state of New Jersey staged walk outs and old-fashioned sit ins today in protest of Governor Chris Christie’s planned cuts — including teacher layoffs — in education spending and plans, approved by tax payers in the recent school board elections, to cut spending in districts across the state.

While students in this prom- and graduation-filled season focusing on something larger than themselves that isn’t a reality television show is, in and of itself, amazing what’s more amazing is that the students organized this via Facebook.

The event was organized by 18-year-old Michelle Ryan Lauto — a Pace University student who once attended high school in New Jersey. Lauto decided to take action after Governor Chris Christie announced that he would be cutting $820 million in educational funding for next year, according to the Hartford Courant.

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