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Parents and teachers press SFUSD for special-education fixes, urge creation of case-coordinator role
Summary
CAC and public commenters urged SFUSD to address special-education compliance and staffing gaps after the CAC reported a rise in special-education graduation rates but persistent implementation problems; teachers and parents asked the board to create a case coordinator to free teachers for classroom time.
The San Francisco Unified School District faced repeated calls Tuesday evening to address staffing and compliance problems in its special-education program, after the districtCommunity Advisory Committee (CAC) laid out priorities and data showing gaps in services.
The CAC told the Board of Education the districtnow identifies special-education students as roughly 12 percent of the student body—about 7,000 students—and reported that the graduation rate for students receiving special-education services rose to 73.5 percent in 2018, up from 66 percent in 2017. The committee nevertheless called for better implementation of interventions, more professional development and a new administrative position to handle back-office work.
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