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Board hears Safe and Supportive Schools update as suspensions fall but disparities remain
Summary
San Francisco Unified School District officials presented the board with implementation progress on the Safe and Supportive Schools resolution, citing expanded behavior-action teams, a new intervention-tracking system and training metrics while community advocates pressed for clearer timelines and disaggregated data by race and school.
San Francisco — The Board of Education on Tuesday received a wide-ranging progress report on the district's Safe and Supportive Schools initiative, which officials said has expanded behavior-action triage (BAT) teams, rolled out a new intervention-tracking system and provided thousands of hours of training aimed at reducing suspensions.
"The BAT teams were our strategy to provide more personalized attention to school and supporting students' learning," Chief of Student Family Community Support Kevin Truitt told the board, outlining that the number of BAT teams grew from three to four this year and that the district is using a new BASIS data module to track interventions.
District staff described the work as a curriculum of supports and data systems: BAT coaches assigned to schools, a BAT tracker logging contacts, and an Eduvant-designed…
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