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Board approves student-assignment changes to prioritize enrollment at Willie Brown Middle School
Summary
The board voted to adopt revisions to student-assignment policy P5101 (Resolution 14826 SP1) to allow immediate tie-breaker preferences and other measures to help launch the new Willie Brown middle school. Commissioners requested a detailed outreach and program plan to ensure diverse, robust enrollment; public commenters raised broader equity concerns about the assignment system.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Aug. 26 approved revisions to its student-assignment policy intended to create enrollment preferences and tie-breakers to populate the new Willie Brown Middle School in Bayview.
Executive Director Orla O'Keefe read Resolution 14826 SP1 and said the requested action would adopt the revisions to board policy P5101 and suspend the usual timing provision so the changes could take effect immediately. O'Keefe described the policy revisions as mechanisms to provide tie-breaker preferences (including a 94124 geographic preference) and to allow temporary feeder adjustments while the new middle…
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