When We Fight, We Win!
This organization is a grassroots, youth-led organization made up of students, parents and teachers in Los Angeles. _____ seeks to contribute to the student movement, the movement for Black lives, and the movement for public education.
Who is Students Deserve?
This term describes how students are pushed out of schools and into the criminal legal system through criminalization, punitive discipline policies, and cops on campus.
What is the school to prison pipeline?
Students Deserve helped win this major LAUSD initiative focused on supporting Black students.
What is BSAP?
Programs like "Safe Passage" are examples of this type of safety approach.
What is Community-Based Safety?
Students Deserve was founded this year.
What is 2013?
School policing expanded heavily during this decade due to "tough on crime: and zero-tolerance policies.
What are the 1990s?
LAUSD invested this amount into Black student achievement in school year 2025-2026 (because students organized!)
What is $50 million?
Students Deserve and Reclaim Our Schools won its first LAUSD Community Schools Resolution in what year.
What is 2017?
More info: The 2017 resolution formally launched the Community Schools Initiative, which transforms schools into neighborhood hubs by integrating student wellness, shared governance, and expanded learning opportunities. While the 2017 victory lacked a specific funding plan, it provided the policy framework that activists leveraged to secure $12 million in investments during the 2019 UTLA strike.
Students Deserve led organizing to defund school police by this much in 2020-2021, and reinvest those funds into starting BSAP.
What is $25 million?
This is the number of organizations in the Police Free LAUSD Coalition.
What is 13?
LAUSD has invested this amount into Black student achievement since 2021.
What is $175 Million?
This board member championed a community-based safety resolution in December 2025 and has been an influential member advancing Students Deserve demands.
Karla Griego, LAUSD Board District 5
The Dec. 2025 Resolution was named: “Strengthening and Expanding Community-Based Safety Programs in Time of Heightened Immigration Enforcement”