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SFUSD staff outline monitoring plan to track racial isolation and choice outcomes
Summary
SFUSD staff presented a monitoring plan and an external-advisor team to measure whether the new student assignment system reduces racial isolation, will publish an annual report (first due Jan. 2012), and run tiebreaker simulations to test choice outcomes and attendance-area capacity.
Ms. O'Keefe, the district staff lead on student assignment, told the committee the superintendent had convened three external experts to advise monitoring of the new assignment system: Prudence Carter, McCall Kurlander and Sean Reardon. She said the district's monitoring work will focus on reversing "the trend of racial isolation and the concentration of underserved students in the same school," and that the annual report will use historical baselines and explicit thresholds for analysis.
"The specific goals for monitoring student assignment that we're looking…
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