The Black Student Achievement Plan, which was launched in 2021, has provided additional funding to eligible schools across the district.
conducted by the Police Free Coalition, a community group that is pushing for more funding for the initiative, showed overwhelming support for it among students, but that much of the money has gone unspent and the quality of implementation varies across the schools involved. Some programs appear to be thriving while other schools haven’t done much with the funds.
A coalition of students and advocates is pushing LAUSD to defund its school police department completely and use those funds to further expand support for Black students. It’s a renewed effort after a push in 2020 that led the school board to fund the Black Student Achievement Plan in part by cutting the police budget by more than 30%.
Despite a significant portion of the funding still not being spent, students and community advocates are pushing for more funding. Christian Flagg, who’s worked on the Black Student Achievement Plan on behalf of the Community Coalition, said it was important to increase the funding to ensure a solid infrastructure can be established.
“The dream would be to have African American studies and ethnic studies at the school but have a constant teacher that’s not only one period,” Weatherspoon said. For Hamilton High School senior Cailey Phlegm, the Black Student Achievement plan has provided her with the extra push she needed. She’s involved in a program course that allows her to interact with BSAP counselors three days a week. The constant contact has helped her decide to switch her upcoming college major and career goal from music business to film production.
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