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Parents Urge SFUSD to Keep Ortega Mandarin Siblings Together After Lottery Displacements
Summary
Multiple Jose Ortega families told the Board of Education that six siblings were displaced from the school's Mandarin immersion kindergarten due to limited class capacity, and asked the district to add a second class or expand enrollment to keep families together for 2016-17.
Families from Jose Ortega Elementary School pressed the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education to resolve a sibling-displacement problem in the school's Mandarin immersion program, saying six siblings who expected priority placement were not offered spots for the 2016-17 kindergarten year.
Parents and community volunteers described Jose Ortega as a tightly knit immersion community and said the district's current single immersion class per grade cannot meet rising demand. Becky Chan, a Jose Ortega parent, said the EPC director had never seen so many siblings denied…
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