LAUSD quietly overhauled BSAP, a program meant to bolster struggling Black students, after a legal challenge from a conservative group against basing such help on race.
Under pressure after a conservative group took legal action, the Los Angeles Unified School District will overhaul a $120-million academic program for struggling Black students by eliminating race as a factor in determining which children will be helped. The decision has outraged supporters of the district's Black Student Achievement Plan, who are demanding that officials stand by the original program, which had begun to yield some early, positive results.
criteria for allocating resources to its schools,' the civil rights office wrote to the group. 'All schools in the District are able to receive the ... resources identified in has given me resources that none of my family members had when they were in school, which is a reason why they never went to college.” The experience of Kei’Shawn Henderson shows the potential of
staff. But at Washington, Kei'Shawn said he ran into problems when his girlfriend was bullied. When he defended her, he said, he became the target of threats by gang members. He had reason to be worried. During that same time period, in a situation caught on video, a student was jumped just off campus. As the student fended off blows, he pulled out a gun from his pocket and fired. Another student died.
embodied a more political agenda, with its student and activist supporters pressing the school system to eliminate school police, as part of a 'Police-Free LAUSD Coalition.' McKenna, who strongly supports the school police, said through a spokesperson that he wants the district to continue its accelerated help for Black students and said he hopes the district can continue to do so under the new format.
restorative justice teachers, including Batiste, deliver lessons on how to manage and defuse conflict and how to take responsibility for personal actions. Batiste cites her work as an example of how all students — including non-Black students — were benefiting 'I bring all classes in, because everyone needs to benefit from restorative justice. You can't teach five kids how to cope with their feelings and emotions and let the other five not know how.
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