Timeline

South LA – On November 4, 2023, nearly 400 parents and students gathered at Southwest College to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of United Parents and Students (UPAS) and to focus on restoring the City of Los Angeles’ Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program called BIG:LEAP. The meeting was chaired by Green Dot California parent and student leaders…

Parent leaders with Schools Superintendent Tamu Lucero and Stamford Representatives Blumenthal, Delany and Figueroa. A momentous occasion unfolded this past Saturday at the Stamford government center as parents, advocates, and local officials gathered to celebrate the passing of a groundbreaking ELL Bill of Rights. This new legislation will require all public schools in Connecticut to…

United Parents & Students will hold their next annual assembly this weekend, where leaders will push their Community Investment Platform as a step to reduce poverty in communities served by Green Dot Public Schools. The assembly, the ninth since the community organization was founded in 2014, will be the first one to be held with parents,…

As California prepares to hold primaries to select candidates for the November elections, United Parents and Students has been busy motivating communities to go to the polls and let their voices be heard. Since early April, the community-based organization has been holding voting events in communities served by Green Dot Public Schools to educate parents…

Community-Based Organizations, including United Parents and Students, recently urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to include the Health Equity and Racial Justice Fund (HERJ) in the state’s 2022/2023 budget. The HERJ Fund would address health inequities and racial injustices and provide $100 million in dedicated and ongoing annual funding to community-based groups, tribal organizations, and clinics (CBOs) to identify the…

UPAS families collaborated with many organizations to increase violence prevention services in Los Angeles, which resulted in a $20MM allocation by the county to support crisis response, violence disruption, and gang prevention and intervention.

UPAS leaders thoroughly supported SB-28 (authored by CA Senator Ana Caballero) because we believe that every student, every family, and every zip code should have access to broadband high-speed internet. UPAS sent legislators hundreds of support emails. As a result, SB-28 was signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom!

UPAS led a powerful campaign to get the MYLA311 app fully translated by holding hundreds of 1:1’s and house meetings, and collecting thousands of petition signatures! 311 Call Center provides various options to connect to a wide variety of nonemergency City services and general City information. As a result, we are extremely excited to announce…