Santa Barbara School District Drafts Response, Discipline Policies for Racist Incidents

Santa Barbara Unified Updates Protocols to Address Racist Acts

The school district is implementing new response and discipline protocols in response to public outcry after an incident involving “blackface” at San Marcos High School last month.

Santa Barbara Unified tightens consequences for racism, hate-motivated conduct following 'blackface' TikTok post

Concerns about a pattern of racism in Santa Barbara Unified schools reached a fever pitch after a TikTok post of San Marcos High School students in an ethnic studies classroom depicting ‘blackface’ circulated nearly a month ago

Santa Barbara School District Drafts Response, Discipline Policies for Racist Incidents

The Santa Barbara Unified School District is looking to change its policies on responding to and disciplining racist incidents.   Tuesday night’s Board of Education discussion comes after public outcry over a blackface incident involving San Marcos High School students, who posted a social media picture of themselves with artificially darkened skin to recreate an image […]