Arizona teachers plan to walk out again on Monday, extending the first statewide strike into its third day.

Walkout organizers said that GOP state lawmakers left the capitol early on Friday to avoid them, and that they plan to come back to the building for a third day.

“I think we have to come back Monday because they closed shop and ran away from us yesterday, and we have to show them that they don’t get to run away from our students,” Arizona Education Association president Joe Thomas told USA Today.

The state House and Senate adjourned on Thursday instead of Friday this week, avoiding the estimated 5,000 protesters who showed up on Friday.

Barbara Skinner, a Phoenix-area educator, said she was “disappointed” in the lawmakers.

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“I’m disappointed they left. I’m disappointed they won’t have a conversation," she told the publication. “We want people to know that this isn’t something that just happened a week ago. This has been 10 years in the making.”

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) said Friday that he reached a deal with lawmakers for a 20 percent pay raise for teachers by 2020, but did not address teachers’ other demands, which include support staff pay increases, annual raises for educators and $1 billion in funding to restore state education funding to prerecession levels.

Arizona teacher pay ranks 44th in the country, according to USA Today.

Colorado teachers, who also walked out on Thursday and Friday, are supporting a ballot initiative to raise taxes and direct more funding to schools. Educators in the state used personal days to protest at the capitol, and do not plan to continue their strike into Monday.