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LA School Police Are Over-Arresting Students—Especially Black Students— Says...
A brand new report released by UCLA’s Million Dollar Hoods Project contains disturbing data about the high numbers of encounters between Los Angeles County school kids and LA’s school police. While...
View ArticleA Historic Win for Students, Parents, and Advocates: LAUSD Officials Vote to...
In 2011, the Los Angeles Unified School District established a policy requiring schools to subject students at its 200 middle and high schools to daily “random searches.” School administrators pull...
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Opinion: We Must Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) Despite recent efforts to reduce California’s prison incarceration rates, severe racial disparities persist in our criminal justice system. According to a report...
View ArticleLawsuit and CA Bill Aim to Reduce Discriminatory Discipline in Schools — UPDATED
Update: On Monday, September 9, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 419, which will expand the state’s ban on suspensions for willful defiance to protect students in higher grades from harsh...
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LAUSD Plans to Expand List of Offenses Eligible for Diversion to Reduce...
Since its launch in 2014, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s diversion program has served 1,954 kids that would otherwise have been funneled into the criminal justice system. Of the nearly 2,000...
View Article“Disgraceful” Disparities in School Discipline Funnel Kids into Justice System
Research and the national conversation around racial disparities in school discipline have largely remained focused on the outsized disparate treatment that black students receive when compared with...
View ArticleLAUSD School Board Votes to Redirect 35 Percent of School Police Funds to...
The largest independent school police department in the United States will see its funding drop by $25 million — 35 percent of the total — thanks to a 4-3 vote from the Los Angeles Unified School Board...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Finally, an Opportunity to Humanize, Not Criminalize, LA’s Students
By: Maxwell Cadena, Yvonne Tinajero, George Lucas The slogan of the Los Angeles School Police Department is “Serving Our Future Today.” Unfortunately, too often, rather than serving local students’...
View ArticleLAUSD Student Organizers Say Former School Police Should Not Serve in New...
As the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education is working out the finer details of the new Black Student Achievement Plan, LA’s student organizers are watching the board closely to...
View ArticleNew Community-Led Report Calls for LA School Police to Be Replaced With...
Parents, students, teachers, researchers, advocates, and two Los Angeles Unified School Board members gathered last Tuesday, January 31, on the steps of Mann UCLA Community School in South LA, for the...
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