Black Students in San Francisco Channeled to Special Education.
Journalist Carrie Spector reports that a team of interdisciplinary researchers, led by Stanford Education Professor, Alfredo J. Artiles, is working to identify, along with California Education Partners, what exactly is driving this disturbing, disproportionate trend in the San Francisco Unified School District. According to Artiles, "We found that on average, Black students at the elementary and K-8 schools were five times more likely than all other students to be referred to special education. At 50 of 70 of the schools in the district, Black students were at least three times more likely to be referred, which means the problem isn’t driven by a few schools — it’s a district-wide problem." Read more HERE.
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