Students Deserve

Students Deserve What is Students Deserve? a grassroots coalition of students, parents, and teachers fighting for justice in education and beyond.

What is Schools L.A. Students Deserve? a city-wide space bringing together youth, educators, families, communities, and movements to be a force that simultaneously:
A.) ENVISIONS the education (and the communities, city, and society) we want
B.) FIGHTS the current attacks on public education and the ongoing racism, classism and oppressions of the education system,
C.) CREATES real on-the-ground solutions that show the power that people to build what we want now.

As we prepare to fight back against the proposed cuts to the Black Student Achievement Plan (BSAP), check out this artic...
06/04/2026

As we prepare to fight back against the proposed cuts to the Black Student Achievement Plan (BSAP), check out this article featuring leader Makeda (rising senior at Dorsey High School) and Christian Flagg ( ) sharing why BSAP matters. 📣

Through BSAP, Makeda connected with college prep opportunities, visited UC Berkeley and Stanford, and received support from counselors, psychologists, and social workers.

“They’re saying that a program that’s meant to help Black students and other students of color is discriminatory. We’ve been discriminated against in school systems basically our entire lives.”- Makeda

🔗 Read the full article (and check out the photos of Makeda repping our button campaign 👀) in our bio or here: https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-civil-rights-49a9916076cb5fba533e6d42462bf1f0

Join us in celebrating the graduating class of 2026! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾Thank you to everyone who joined us last Sunday as we made...
06/03/2026

Join us in celebrating the graduating class of 2026! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Sunday as we made space to reflect, laugh & celebrate one another 🫂

This marked our biggest graduating class with almost 150 seniors from our nearly 30 LAUSD chapters - young people who helped organize to protect BSAP, win investments for undocumented students, expand LGBTQ+ supports, and push LAUSD toward real safety beyond policing. 📣 We love and appreciate you all!

Thank you to our speakers .dct3, & our Black parent leaders for making it special.

🚨 LAUSD is proposing massive cuts to BSAP! 🚨LAUSD announced $150 million in proposed cuts to BSAP from a budget of ⬆️ $1...
06/03/2026

🚨 LAUSD is proposing massive cuts to BSAP! 🚨

LAUSD announced $150 million in proposed cuts to BSAP from a budget of ⬆️ $175 million in 2025-26 school year to a proposed ⬇️ $25million 2027-28 school year. 🚨If these cuts move forward, it would result in hundreds of layoffs of BSAP Staff and the end of many programs and services for Black students and other underserved students. 🚨

📣 We are hosting an emergency meeting and we invite current LAUSD students, educators, parents to join us to learn what’s at stake and how we’re fighting back! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

👉🏾THIS Friday, June 5 at 7 PM via Zoom
DM us for the link 🔗

We are saying NO to LAUSD balancing the budget on the backs of Black and Brown youth!

05/21/2026

& parent, Candace, shares with us what community based safety means to her.

With LAUSD proposing budget cuts to programs like BSAP & mental health staff, we are making it clear that safety comes from investments in .

Let us know in the comments, what does safety mean to you?

📣 5/12 Public Comment Recap! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾Last week, and , alongside the Coalition, showed up powerfully at the LAUSD S...
05/21/2026

📣 5/12 Public Comment Recap! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

Last week, and , alongside the Coalition, showed up powerfully at the LAUSD School Board meeting to demand protections for BSAP, Dream Centers, and mental health support staff. ⚡️

As the district finalizes its 2026–2027 budget, students are continuing to push for investments that actually keep them safe and supported— NOT budget cuts to critical resources. ❌👮🏽‍♂️❌

Swipe to hear some powerful testimonies from students, educators, and community members. 🗣️📣

We are excited to share that students have distributed over 3,000 buttons and stickers across 20 schools! 🔥We are making...
05/15/2026

We are excited to share that students have distributed over 3,000 buttons and stickers across 20 schools! 🔥

We are making it loud and clear that LAUSD must STOP the cuts on BSAP positions, mental health support staff and dream centers! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

👉🏾 Learn more about our campaign at https://safeschoolslausd.com/campaigninfosheet26

📣 Take action with the coalition this Tuesday, May 12th as we show up the LAUSD School Board Meeting! We are actively ...
05/08/2026

📣 Take action with the coalition this Tuesday, May 12th as we show up the LAUSD School Board Meeting!

We are actively demanding that LAUSD protect critical BSAP positions—like Ms. Ward at Western Tech—and fully fund Dream Centers, Community Schools, and mental health support staff. ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

These are the programs that actually keep our students safe and supported, show up with us! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

👉🏾 Tuesday, May 12 at 3 PM
LAUSD HQ: 333 S. Beaudry Ave

Safe schools come from investing in students and their communities NOT from policing them. 💛 Young people deserve school...
05/07/2026

Safe schools come from investing in students and their communities NOT from policing them. 💛 Young people deserve schools rooted in care, support, healing, and opportunity. ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

As cuts happen across California and public education continues to be under attack, students and organizers are fighting for investments to be made in mental health services, community schools, counselors, housing, after school programs, and community-based support NOT systems that criminalize and push students out. 🗣️

Our message is clear: Pol(ICE) do not belong in schools. ❌🧊👮🏽‍♂️❌

✊🏿✊🏾 In solidarity with organizers statewide working to end the school-to-prison pipeline and build truly safe schools for every young person. ⚡️

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05/06/2026

We joined & so many others today for a Care First Rally & Resource Fair! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

📣 We showed up to demand our County Board of Supervisors invest in what actually keeps our communities strong: housing, healthcare, mental health support, youth programs, and community-based care.

Lead Organizer Araya shared: “If we want more kids to make it to graduation, we need to put care FIRST, jails never.”

⚡️As LA County faces a budget crisis caused by decades of harm within the probation system, we’re continuing to fight for investments in youth NOT incarceration. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

General Assembly RECAP ⚡️It was powerful to be in community with y’all at our General Assembly last week! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾Y’all ...
05/06/2026

General Assembly RECAP ⚡️

It was powerful to be in community with y’all at our General Assembly last week! ✊🏿❤️✊🏾

Y’all brought the energy as we talked about the recent , , & AALA victories! 📣 We continue our fight to ensure LAUSD protects BSAP positions, Dream Centers, Mental Health Supports, and EXPANDS community based safety across LAUSD this spring.

Shoutout to all of our facilitators and new + returning members that joined us! 🫂💛

👀 Save the date for May 12th to show up to amplify our demands at the school board meeting! 🗣️

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