Los Angelesâs Move to Reduce Police in Schools
Thursday: The decision comes after months of calls to defund the police. Also: A state pandemic aid package.
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Protesters outside the Unified School District headquarters in June calling on the Board of Education to defund school police in Los Angeles.Credit.Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Good morning.
Even as difficult negotiations continue on plans to reopen schools across California, student activists, community organizers and teachers in Los Angeles celebrated what they said on Wednesday was a major victory in a monthslong push to do something thousands of protesters called for last summer: defund the police.