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How can San Francisco support its most vulnerable black residents? Help them succeed at school.

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How can San Francisco support its most vulnerable black residents? Help them succeed at school.

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By Lee Romney

The series has received support from the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being, a program of the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism.

Other stories in this series include:

One African American family, half a century of experience in SF public schools

A legacy of mistreatment for San Francisco’s black special ed students

(Photo Credit: Lee Romney/KALW)
(Photo Credit: Lee Romney/KALW)
KALW
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

San Francisco’s African American community has shrunk by half since 1970. Of the families that remain, nearly a fifth live in public housing or get a rental subsidy. Now, a city effort is turning public housing into a key front in the battle to improve educational outcomes for African American kids.

This is part of an ongoing series “.”

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