Students walk out to protest budget cuts

A few students were detained by police during the mostly peaceful protest at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s downtown headquarters.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

The students make their voices heard at the protest. Some student organizers also threaten to boycott state testing next week.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Santee High School student Perla Aguerre,14, hoists a sign expressing a rallying point during the protest.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Student demonstrators gather to protest impending cuts at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

More than 200 students gathered outside the Santee Education Complex near downtown Los Angeles this morning to march toward the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters to protest cuts that would lay off thousands of teachers district-wide and increase class sizes.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Santee Education Complex students protest in front of the Los Angeles Unified School headquarters.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A Santee Education Complex student makes her statement clear while marching toward the Los Angeles Unified School headquarters to protest proposed budget cuts that would layoff teachers in the school district in Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Students begin their walkout and march toward the Los Angeles Unified School headquarters.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A sign targets Los Angeles Unified School District as students gather to protest possible budget cuts.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Lincoln High School student David Castro,18, tries to rally students to gather for a planned march to LAUSD headquarters.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Lincoln High School students march toward LAUSD headquarters Friday morning to protest possible cuts.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

LAUSD police officer Victor Del Rio talks to protesting Lincoln High School students. Most of the students protesting are from Santee and Lincoln High School in East L.A. They were being monitored by school administrators for their safety.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Lincoln High School student Edgar Sosa,15, holds a sign protesting LAUSD.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)