Suspended in Silence

The data they refuse to release: Coleman Advocates’ “Stop Suspending Our Success” campaign confronts SFUSD’s discriminatory suspension regime — and five years of records the district never kept. Special Investigative Series — The Unquiet Resignation — Part Four of Five SAN FRANCISCO — Part Two of this investigation documented the doctrine. Seventy years after Brown […]

A Question of Competence

Dr. Vidrale Franklin was removed from her principalship after an investigation this newsroom has documented as procedurally irregular and, in appearance, discriminatory. A former President of the San Francisco Board of Education and a veteran substitute teacher now describe the culture that produced it — and the State of California has put the district on […]