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SFUSD reports steep drop in suspensions but racial disproportionality persists as district rolls out BAT teams
Summary
District staff told the board that overall suspensions have fallen about 50% from three years ago while Latino and African American students remain disproportionately affected; the district plans an administrative directive to prohibit suspensions for defiance, to require documentation of all out-of-classroom referrals, to expand behavioral RTI and to deploy multidisciplinary BAT teams.
San Francisco Unified School District staff told the Board of Education on June 24 that overall suspensions have fallen roughly 50% compared with three years ago, but that racial disproportionality in referrals and suspensions remains a significant concern.
Thomas Graven, presenting for Pupil Services, said the district has "cleaned the data" and is expanding systems to track out-of-class referrals and interventions. "We are seeing a dramatic drop in overall suspensions," Graven said. "If you look from three years ago, we're 50% of where we were three years ago." He added the district is still clarifying school-level reporting and cautioned that inconsistent reporting can make schools that track more closely appear worse in the raw…
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