Thousands of students, teachers, and supporters demonstrated in Hungary's capital for improved pay and working conditions for educators, the latest expression of frustration with the right-wing government's education policy by a growing student movement. The protest march in Budapest began on a square beside Hungary's parliament and stopped traffic on one of the city's busiest avenues. Demonstrators, made up largely of high school-aged students, called for the repeal of a draft bill that would revoke teachers' status as public employees, and demanded pay raises for educators and a restoration of their right to strike. Agnes Vlasics, 57, a Teacher from Budapest, said she'd considered ending her 30-year career in education over the poor working conditions, and what she sees as a lack of will by the government of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban to meaningfully engage with teachers' concerns. Students and teachers have held a series of similar protests over the last several months, and have become the primary voice of dissent in

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