Finding F2
Findings and Recommendations
The CDE has identified Natomas SELPA as a special education program that overidentifies African American/Black students as emotionally disturbed and that has an excessive number of African American/Black special education students missing school.
Jury report: The Natomas Unified School District Special Education Program Struggles to Meet Student Needs · PDF page 11
Permanent linkOfficial response
Natomas Unified School District Board of Education
The district partially disagrees: it accepts racial overidentification but disputes the state absenteeism classification.
Read official response · PDF page 3The two propositions are explicitly separated and the accepted and disputed portions are identified. No underlying determination letter is attached.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.