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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 26, 2024: Dorsey High School students Caleel Smith, front, Maki Draper, Braxton Jordan, and Kei' Shawn Henderson, left, are a part of the Black Students Achievement Plan or BSAP on September 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. They are fighting to save the program. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

LAUSD Black student success program upended by conservative Virginia group

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Dodgers starting pitcher Jack Flaherty watches from the Dodger Stadium dugout during Game 1 of the NLCS.

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Daniel Lurie, philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir, arrives with wife Becca Prowda at the Department of Elections to file paperwork to participate in the upcoming mayoral election, in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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** FILE** A speed boat passes by offshore windmills in the North Sea offshore from the village of Blavandshuk near Esbjerg, Denmark, in this file photo taken on Wednesday, Oct.30, 2002. A plan to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States cleared a key hurdle Friday, March 30, 2007, winning Massachusetts state approval of an environmental report submitted by the project's developers. Cape Wind Associates hope to build 130 windmills over 25 miles of federal waters in Nantucket Sound. The turbines would up to 440 feet above sea level when the tallest blade is pointing straight up. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 04: LAPD Det. Kristine Klotz, once a member of the vaunted Robbery-Homicide Division, was allegedly retaliated against after accusing a male supervisor or sexual harassment and here poses for a portrait outside LAPD headquarters downtown on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. Instead of addressing her concerns, Klotz said she faced retaliation in the form of demolition and transfer to the Valley. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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Lompoc, CA - March 07: View South of Honda Point near Point Arguello on Vandenberg Space Force Base through the sandy dunes of Surf Beach where the nearby Santa Ynez River forms an estuary before it empties into the Pacific Ocean in Northern Santa Barbara County. There is a controversial plan to build the first offshore wind energy facility in the western U.S. just west of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc. The companies behind this effort, which aim to have eight 300-foot-tall turbines floating only 2.5 miles off the coast by 2026, want to generate power for Vandenberg as well as gather data about potential environmental impacts that can be used to develop far larger federally-sponsored wind energy projects more than 20 miles offshore in decades to come. This is the same area where Chumash tribal members are working with NOAA to create a marine sanctuary. in Surf Beach on Monday, March 7, 2022 in Lompoc, CA. (Al Seib / For The Los Angeles Times)

White House announces first California marine sanctuary managed by Indigenous peoples

REFUGIO STATE BEACH, MAY 20, 2015 - Crews from West Coast Environmental bag oiled sand on the beach as a clean-up operation began at Refugio State Beach Wednesday morning, May 20, 2015, after a ruptured pipeline near Santa Barbara leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Coachella, California October 12, 2024-Presidential candidate Donald Trump is introduced during a rally at Calhoun Ranch in Coachella Saturday.(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2024: Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room on September 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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VENICE, CA - JUNE 7, 2024 - Aauti Sumaiyya, in her 70s, says goodbye to a visitor before entering her apartment at the Rose Apartments in Venice on June 7, 2024. Sumaiyya, who lived homeless in Venice for many years, was living at "A Bridge Home," housing in Venice before being offered housing at the Rose Apartments. The Rose Apartments, operated by Venice Community Housing, offers affordable housing for the homeless. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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