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African American parents urge mandatory restorative practices, more Black history in SFUSD curriculum
Summary
The African American Parent Advisory Council presented recommendations to the San Francisco Board of Education calling for mandatory K–12 restorative practices, more Black-history and ethnic-studies curriculum, monitoring of suspensions by race, a full inventory of required reading, and written responses from the district by December 2017.
The African American Parent Advisory Council told the San Francisco Board of Education on Oct. 24 that the district must take immediate, systemic steps to improve outcomes for Black students.
"It is our goal to empower the lives of all African American children and families," said Rhianda Battiste, one of APAC's co-chairs, as the group outlined a package of requests including mandatory restorative-practices implementation K–12, ongoing monitoring of school-site implementation, and a comparison of schools with high suspension rates to their restorative-practices adoption. APAC also asked that Black history be infused across K–5 curricula and that…
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