LAPD cops must now ask permission to enter city s schools after officials defunded police budget by $25m and redirected towards the Black Student Achievement Plan (BSAP).
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To the editor: I’m the mother of two students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, so I loved reading about people who attended the Reclaim Our Schools rally like 10th-grade student Maleeyah Frazier. She called for increased mental health support for kids. (“What will the school year look like in the fall? The fight is on,” May 24)
However, I was shocked to learn there was another rally held by parents who blamed the school district for “not standing up to union demands.” This quote in particular jumped out at me: “What has happened this year has been a disaster and my eyes were opened up to the fact that that disaster is due to the collusion between UTLA and our LAUSD board.”
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What schooling will look like in Los Angeles Unified in the fall will be settled over the next few weeks amid escalating demands from parents, advocacy groups and unions all pressing their agendas for the educational recovery of some 465,000 students.
One group of parents on Sunday put their stake in the ground: They demanded that district officials commit to a normal, full-time schedule for the fall. Separately, the teachers union last week called for maintaining safety measures, hiring more union members and raising pay. Meanwhile, a coalition of community groups recently called for increased funding for schools that they identified as most in need.
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When 17-year-old Kahlila Williams heard ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, she felt a sense of resolve she knew it signaled that her work as a student activist was only beginning.
A leader with Students Deserve, Williams is part of a student-led organization that helped to successfully push the school board to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department last summer. Yet the high school senior who will be attending UCLA in the fall acknowledged that the work to reimagine policing and ending police brutality against Black Americans is still in progress.
This past week represented “a moment where you can just breathe, where you can take some space to celebrate, but also understand that there’s work that needs to be done,” Kahlila said.