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Parents press SFUSD on special‑education newsletter censorship, translation quality and GoldView access
Summary
Parents, CAC members and board members debated alleged newsletter censorship, poor interpreter quality for IEPs, and restricted parent access to the district's GoldView IEP system. The CAC presented detailed recommendations on communication, placement, staffing and oversight; staff said legal constraints and implementation logistics explain some limits.
At the Feb. 26 school board meeting the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for Special Education presented a multi‑page set of recommendations and asked the San Francisco Unified School District to improve communication, interpreters, parent access to IEP records and program placement options.
CAC Chair Wanyi Francis Babitsky read recommendations calling for the district to allow the CAC to mail its newsletter without prior district censorship, to hire special‑education parent liaisons fluent in community languages, to make written placement offers available at IEP meetings, to ensure qualified interpreters for IEPs, and to expand GoldView access and teacher training.
Several public commenters and CAC members said the CAC's second newsletter was blocked from distribution and used the word "censorship" to…
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