The SFUSD Shoestrings Program: A Wraparound Early Childhood Intervention to Disrupt Significant Racial Disproportionality in Discipline and Special Education

The San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Shoestrings program is an innovative, community-designed early childhood intervention to address racial disparities in discipline and special education. This analysis can inform efforts by district leaders wrestling with high rates of, and disparities in, exclusionary school discipline and special education, practitioners seeking to design and implement similar programs, and researchers conducting similar evaluation studies of interventions to disrupt the preschool-to-prison pipeline.