Oklahoma teacher protests rumble on despite funding pledge

Oklahoma teachers vowed Thursday to keep up their protests after the US state's lawmakers bowed to intense pressure and approved more school funding -- but the pledge still fell short of teachers' demands.Tens of thousands of educators and their supporters have rallied in the capital Oklahoma City this week -- shutting down schools across the state as they demanded a reversal of a decade of education funding cuts.The House chamber of the Republican-controlled state legislature late Wednesday app