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Supervisors refer school assignment resolution to joint city–school committee after heated debate
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7–4 on Sept. 9 to refer a resolution urging the San Francisco Unified School District to give greater weight to geographic location in student assignments to a joint board–school district committee after a sharp debate over jurisdiction, diversity and neighborhood schools.
Supervisor David Chiu introduced a resolution urging the San Francisco Unified School District to reconsider its K–12 assignment system and “place greater emphasis on geographic considerations,” telling the Board that parents had reported long commutes and that the district spends about $2,000,000 to support 29 staff to administer the current assignment process.
The measure, which Chiu said was intended as a request for the school district to examine location alongside other factors, touched off a broad debate about whether the Board of Supervisors should press the elected school board on assignments and whether a push for neighborhood schools could risk resegregation.
Chiu, the resolution’s sponsor, said parents had frequently told him they wanted “a balance of choice as well as certainty around attending schools close to home,” and pointed to what he…
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