MIAMI -- Hundreds of teachers filled the sidewalks and streets outside the Miami-Dade School Board building on Wednesday calling for improved health care and protesting budget cuts.

The school board held a board meeting until late Wednesday night. Teachers, students and parents all pointed fingers demanding help from a board responsible for ensuring education.

Students and teachers attended the first school board meeting since the nationally televised brawl at Edison High School. Dozens of Edison students showed up to voice their plan for change.

"With school board members sleeping on the job and our superintendent missing in action, the demand for restorative justice is being ignored," one student said.

Students asked for training across the board in anger management, conflict resolution and what they describe as "unfair zero-tolerance policies."

The meeting happened just hours after hundreds of teachers took the streets surrounding the Miami-Dade County School Board building bashing budget cuts and a multi-million dollar slash set to leave scores of teachers reportedly having to pay a portion of their benefits.

"When they cut from the benefits side, it impacts the amount we receive in salary," said teacher Karen Aronowitz.

Also at stake are the bare necessities, said board member Marta Perez. Perez went against the grain by siding with teachers and against her colleague Superintendent Rudy Crew.

"Some schools, teachers have been told that they've run out of paper and that's absolutely ridiculous," Perez said.

Perez pointed out lavish spending and living by higher-ups and said the cuts should start there.

"We still are giving bonuses and cars and mileage and insurance for our administrators," Perez said.

At Wednesday's meeting, one by one, teachers and some concerned parents shared personal stories. It was a calmer tone than during the street protest, but they said they're still sending the same message that they see their fiscal future as grim at best.