Announcement Details
Announcement Message
Dear SFUSD Students, Families, and Staff,
SFUSD actively takes steps to create safe and welcoming environments for students, staff and families. We are committed to ensuring each and every student feels safe and included within our schools. To that end, we are writing to share updated SFUSD policies, procedures, statements, and notices, as required by law.
The full updated texts for these policies, administrative regulations, statements, and notices are on our website and linked below. Each policy can be translated into 11 languages on the website. Additionally, PDF versions and translated copies will also soon be available here.
- Non-Discrimination Statement
- Non-Discrimination/Harassment
- Nondiscrimination - Intersex, Gender Nonbinary, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming Students
- Student Sexual Harassment
- Bullying and Harassment
- Uniform Complaint Procedures
UNIFORM COMPLAINT PROCEDURES ANNUAL NOTICE 2024-2025
Translations of the Annual Notice in all required languages can also be viewed here.
The San Francisco Unified School District annually notifies our students, employees, parents or guardians of its students, the district advisory committee, school advisory committees, appropriate private school officials, and other interested parties of our Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) process. The UCP Annual Notice is available on our website.
We are primarily responsible for compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, including those related to unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying against any protected group, and all programs and activities that are subject to the UCP.
Programs and Activities Subject to the UCP
- Accommodations for Pregnant and Parenting Pupils
- Adult Education
- After School Education and Safety
- Agricultural Career Technical Education
- Career Technical and Technical Education and Career Technical and Technical Training Programs
- Child Care and Development Programs
- Compensatory Education
- Consolidated Categorical Aid Programs
- Course Periods without Educational Content
- Discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying against any protected group as identified under sections 200 and 220 and Section 11135 of the Government Code, including any actual or perceived characteristic as set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, or on the basis of a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution, as defined in Section 210.3, that is funded directly by, or that receives or benefits from, any state financial assistance.
- Educational and graduation requirements for pupils in foster care, pupils who are homeless, pupils from military families, pupils formerly in Juvenile Court now enrolled in a school district, pupils who are migratory, and pupils participating in a newcomer program.
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAP)
- Migrant Education
- Physical Education Instructional Minutes
- Pupil Fees
- Reasonable Accommodations to a Lactating Pupil
- Regional Occupational Centers and Programs
- School Plans for Student Achievement
- Schoolsite Councils
- State Preschool
- State Preschool Health and Safety Issues in LEAs Exempt from Licensing
- And any other state or federal educational program the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) or designee deems appropriate.
Additionally, the District has decided that any appeal of a student expulsion alleging that the Board of Education failed to meet state legal requirements as specifically described in Education Code 48922 will be investigated and resolved by the District in accordance with the specific procedures set forth in AR 1312.3 - Uniform Complaint Procedures.
Filing a UCP Complaint
A UCP complaint shall be filed no later than one year from the date the alleged violation occurred.
For complaints relating to Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAP), the date of the alleged violation is the date when the reviewing authority approves the LCAP or annual update that was adopted by our agency.
A pupil enrolled in any of our public schools shall not be required to pay a pupil fee for participation in an educational activity.
A pupil fee complaint may be filed with the principal of a school or our superintendent or their designee.
A pupil fee or LCAP complaint may be filed anonymously, that is, without an identifying signature, if the complainant provides evidence or information leading to evidence to support an allegation of noncompliance.
Contact Information
Complaints within the scope of the UCP are to be filed with the person responsible for processing complaints:
Keasara Williams
Executive Director of the Office of Equity and/or Title IX Coordinator
555 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA
Telephone: (415) 355-7334
Email: equity@sfusd.edu
Michele McAdams
District 504 Coordinator
1515 Quintara St. San Francisco, CA
Phone: (415) 242-2615, ext. 3011
Email: mcadamsd@sfusd.edu
The above contacts are knowledgeable about the laws and programs that they are assigned to investigate in the San Francisco Unified School District.
Responsibilities of the San Francisco Unified School District
We shall post a standardized notice, in addition to this notice, with educational and graduation requirements for pupils in foster care, pupils who are homeless, pupils from military families, pupils formerly in Juvenile Court now enrolled in a school district, pupils who are migratory, and pupils participating in a newcomer program.
We advise complainants of the opportunity to appeal an Investigation Report of complaints regarding programs within the scope of the UCP to the California Department of Education (CDE).
We advise complainants of civil law remedies, including injunctions, restraining orders, or other remedies or orders that may be available under state or federal discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying laws, if applicable.
Copies of our UCP procedures shall be available free of charge.
For UCP Complaints Regarding State Preschool Health and Safety Issues Pursuant to Section 1596.7925 of the California Health and Safety Code (HSC)
In order to identify appropriate subjects of state preschool health and safety issues pursuant to Section 1596.7925 of the California Health and Safety Code (HSC) a notice shall be posted in each California state preschool program classroom in each school in our agency.
The notice is in addition to this UCP annual notice and addresses parents, guardians, pupils, and teachers of (1) the health and safety requirements under Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations (5 CCR) that apply to California state preschool programs pursuant to HSC Section 1596.7925, and (2) the location at which to obtain a form to file a complaint.
View the Uniform Complaint Procedures Annual Notice on SFUSD’s Website. Available in eleven languages.