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February 05, 2006
Racial Segregation through Special Ed. in SF
The SF Weekly takes a look at the high percentage of African American students in special day classes in San Francisco and the overall performance gap.
Most significantly, the gap between San Francisco's overall score and the score for its African-American students remains far and away the widest achievement gap of California's seven major urban districts. (The Academic Performance Index, or API, measures a range from 200 to a possible high of 1,000.) This gap in San Francisco is 85 points higher than the gap in Sacramento, 96 points higher than the gap in San Diego, and a full 118 points higher than the gap in Los Angeles.