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SFUSD board directs staff to design new community‑based student assignment policy
Summary
The San Francisco school board voted Dec. 11 to launch a staff-led process to design a revised elementary student assignment system prioritizing predictability, geographic access and racial and socioeconomic integration. Staff must model options and return with measurable definitions and an implementation plan.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education voted Dec. 11 to ask staff to develop a new, community‑based student assignment policy for elementary schools that emphasizes predictability, neighborhood access and integrated classrooms.
The board adopted a substitute motion by Commissioner Matt Haney directing the superintendent to convene a staff working group and hire a project manager to model several assignment options — including home‑address (neighborhood) assignment, zone‑based guarantees and individualized home‑address choice lists — and to return with definitions of…
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