Introduction

The Special Education department has the task of providing quality education to a large variety of students who may have varying and unique circumstances affecting their learning. Thus the term "Special Education." The department's task and responsibilities include identifying, sorting, and subsequently meeting the learning needs of each student classified for Special Education.

Your challenge is to define "Special Education" and the circumstances (or criteria) under which a student should be classified as such. How does the Special Education curriculum differ from the traditional curriculum and should there be a difference? What seems to be the ethnic make up of Special Education? Is there an over-representation of any one ethnic group?

1. What are the ten most used (reasons) criteria for Special Education enrollment? List in order by percentage of Special Education participants.
2. Does Special Education exist in each public school within San Francisco, California?
3. How many San Francisco high schools have Special Education Programs?
4. Which high school has the largest percentage of their enrollment in Special Education? List all high school data.
5. Which are the six most used (reasons, categories, criteria) in San Francisco High School's Special Education? (Refer to question 1.)
6. Are disciplinary problems among the primary reasons?
7. Are academic deficiencies among the reasons? What percentage?
8. Are physical disabilities among the reasons? What percentage?
9. Which ethnic group makes up the highest percentage of the Special Education Program within San Francisco High Schools? What is the group's percentage of SFUSD?
10. Which group makes up the second highest percentage?
11. What are the three primary reasons for the groups enrolled? (Refer to questions 9 and 10.)
12. How many students comprise G.W.H.S. Special Education? Answer questions 5-11 for GWHS.
13. What is the student to teacher ratio?