By Jena Crum, Tatum Smith and Nicole Gimpl | Cronkite News
Students from at least [3] Arizona high schools have indicated they will participate in planned walkouts to pressure legislators to pass gun reform. The schools signed up as host schools on The Action Network website.
The walkout, scheduled for March 14, is part of a national effort to raise awareness and spur change after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead and 14 injured.
Officials from Hamilton High School in Chandler and Highland High School in Gilbert did not respond to requests for comments on Monday.
UPDATE: The Arizona Republic reports students at a San Tan Valley school also walked out.
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EMPOWER, the youth branch of the Women’s March, organized the walkout of schools and classrooms across the country. It will begin at 10 a.m. and last 17 minutes – one minute for every person killed in the Parkland shooting.
Students at Stoneman Douglas High on Sunday announced plans to march in Washington, D.C., to speak out against gun violence, joining a national protest coordinated by the organization March for Our Lives.
