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SFUSD warns thousands of secondary students must show Tdap proof by Sept. 14 or risk exclusion
Summary
Superintendent Carlos Garcia and Associate Superintendent Kevin Truitt told the board the state's Sept. 14 Tdap documentation deadline affects thousands of secondary students; the district has documentation for roughly 60% of middle and high school students and is running clinics and school-based outreach to avoid exclusions.
Superintendent Carlos Garcia opened the Aug. 23 board meeting by flagging a public-health and attendance issue: state rules require students in grades 7 through 12 to have Tdap vaccination documentation by Sept. 14, and the district had documentation for "only about 60 percent" of middle and high school students.
Garcia said the district does not want to exclude students but stressed the legal deadline: "Come September 15, that's exactly what will happen if they don't have their vaccination documents," he said. He asked Associate Superintendent Kevin Truitt to brief the board on outreach plans.
Truitt described a multi-pronged campaign. Schools have used robocalls, mailed notices and school-loop messages; district nurses and a new SIS field for vaccinations allow staff to record verifications centrally. "We have till September 14," Truitt told the board, adding that the district is locating clinics with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and offering on-site vaccinations at schools in the days leading up to the deadline.
Board members asked about individual outreach and record transfers for students changing schools. Truitt said the district created a vaccination box in SIS to log TDAP records and that summer intake of forms had been entered so some students already appear as verified in school files.
The superintendent and staff urged families to use resources posted on the district website and external pages such as shotsforschool.org for multilingual guidance, and said additional school-by-school clinic dates would be publicized.
Next steps: the district will continue targeted outreach, provide on-site clinic opportunities, and run SIS reports to identify students missing documentation ahead of the Sept. 14 cutoff.
