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 By Benjamin GrushLos Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Michelle King is expected this month to present a plan designed to help students who may be affected by stepped-up immigration

By Jeremiah Tramble

Some California high school students were being sent home from school early or warehoused in the auditorium rather than being assigned meaningful academic classes. As hard as it may be to believe, last year countless students at Los Angeles’ Jefferson High School, for example, didn’t have a complete schedule more than six weeks into the school year.

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While students, parents, faculty and school staff gear up for the excitement of a new school year, a critically important process is unfolding largely out of public view.

By Anna Bauer

By Zara Lockshin

Today is a huge opportunity for Californians to reach out, directly, to our state's senators and assembly members – and urge them to support the ACLU's legislative priorities, especially on digital privacy, police reform and education equity.

Less than a year after the ACLU released a pressing report on the dangerous militarization of American police, law enforcement agencies in California—including school police—continue to use military-grade equipment against the communities they are supposed to protect.