BSAP (Black Student Achievement Plan)
This coalition, co-convened by Students Deserve, BLM-LA, and Brothers Sons Selves, won the $25 million cut to school police that created BSAP in 2020.
What is the Police-Free LAUSD Coalition?
This coalition of organizations, including the Liberated Ethnic Studies Coalition and California Teachers Association, won the first ethnic studies graduation requirement in U.S. history.
What is the coalition behind CA’s ethnic studies requirement? (accept: Liberated Ethnic Studies Coalition / allied orgs)
This organization helped fight to create SENI after decades of inequitable district fund distribution.
What is The Equity Alliance?
This acronym refers to the settlement giving predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and other non-Caucasian communities equitable access to magnet programs.
What is PHBAO?
This amount was won by Students Deserve and partners to expand Dream Centers supporting immigrant students.
What is $5 million?
This is the amount LAUSD cut the school police budget by in 2020, which was used to create BSAP.
What is $25 million?
This 2025 state law, framed as an antisemitism response, is now being used by critics to target liberated ethnic studies curriculum.
What is AB 715?
SENI allocates district funds based on a formula including neighborhood violence, foster/homeless youth status, and this other factor.
What is income level?
This landmark Supreme Court ruling struck down legalized school segregation in 1954, though LAUSD was slow to integrate afterward.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This federal agency received its highest-ever funding level last year, becoming the largest law enforcement entity in U.S. history.
What is ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?
This white supremacist organization filed complaints alleging BSAP is racist, triggering federal investigations.
What is Defending Education (formerly Parents Defending Education)?
This school, home to an Ethnic Studies teacher facing multiple investigations and PRA requests over their curriculum, was ordered to remove Palestine and Black Lives Matter flags.
What is Downtown Business Magnets?
This is the amount LAUSD is proposing to cut SENI down to by 2028-29, from a 2024-25 high of $700 million.
What is $0?
This white supremacist organization filed the lawsuit against LAUSD’s PHBAO program, arguing it discriminates against white students.
What is Project 1776?
Despite Sanctuary Policies, LAUSD still relies on this entity to “intervene” if ICE comes to schools.
What is the school police department?
This is the amount LAUSD proposed cutting BSAP down to for the 2027-28 school year, from a 2025-26 budget of $175 million.
What is $25 million?
This type of complaint was filed against the Ethnic Studies teacher, resulting in “Corrective Actions” against their entire department.
What is a Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP) complaint?
California ranks in the bottom 10 states for this measure, while ranking in the top 5 for police and prison spending.
What is per-pupil education spending?
This federal official, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, argued LAUSD’s desegregation program has “outlived its usefulness.”
Who is Bill Essayli?
This set of federal protections and policies — including one granting deferred action to certain undocumented youth; immigrant rights movements have fought for over decades.
What is DACA (or Sanctuary policies / TPS)?
This federal office reopened its investigation into BSAP in April 2026 after Trump took office, following a new complaint from Defending Education.
What is the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR)?
This news program was named as one of the “unapproved materials” the Downtown Business Magnets Ethnic Studies department was ordered to stop using.
What is Democracy Now?
These two state funding mechanisms, created under community pressure, were meant to improve equitable distribution of state education dollars but still left gaps that SENI tried to fill locally.
What are the LCAP and LCFF?
This is LAUSD’s current public stance on the PHBAO lawsuit, despite not meaningfully engaging students, parents, and community.
What is “will fight against it” (unclear/no meaningful community engagement)?
According to the document, this is the relationship between school police and ICE.
What is “two tentacles of the same beast”?