A Legacy Of Mistreatment For San Francisco’s Black Special Ed Students

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 12:55 a.m.

Kids around the Bay Area are going back to school. So today, we’re re-airing this story from our series, " Learning While Black: The Fight For Equity In San Francisco Schools ." And, it just won an award from the Public Media Journalists Association. African American students across the country are much more likely than any other student group to be placed in special education, and that’s true at San Francisco Unified too. The district’s troubled history has plenty to teach us about what is and