Study uncovers how schools circumvent suspension bans

New research emerging from SFUSD's Shoestrings program reveals informal exclusionary discipline is a widespread problem—but there are solutions. When San Francisco Unified School District created the Shoestrings program—an effort to reduce racial gaps in early childhood discipline—district leaders knew they were taking on an important challenge. What they didn't expect was that this work would reveal a new problem affecting schools across the country.