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Parents say student-assignment lottery leaves families shut out, without schools for start of term
Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District · August 9, 2011
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Summary
Several parents told the board they had been assigned to distant schools through the student-assignment lottery or had no school assignment for the first day of classes, asking the district to explain the assignment system and to provide remedies for families who cannot manage the placements.
Multiple parents told the board Aug. 9 that the district’s student-assignment lottery system had placed their children far from home or left some without an assigned school for Monday, Aug. 15.
Archie Choice said the system ‘‘is not really a fair system’’ and described…
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