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SFUSD board adopts CTIP-based student assignment plan, adds monitoring and contingency for benchmarks
Summary
After extensive public testimony and dozens of amendments, the San Francisco Unified School District board adopted a new student assignment policy that uses a Census Tract Integration Preference (CTIP) to prioritize students from the city's lowest-achieving census tracts, reshapes middle-school feeder boundaries, and establishes an expert monitoring group with triggers to revisit race-conscious options if benchmarks are not met.
The San Francisco Unified School District board voted to adopt a redesigned student assignment policy on March 9 that aims to increase school diversity by using neighborhood address plus ranked choices, a new Census Tract Integration Preference (CTIP) that prioritizes students living in the 20 percent of census tracts with the lowest average test scores, feeder-pattern changes for middle schools, and annual monitoring with specified benchmarks.
What the new plan does. Staff described the CTIP preference as a targeted way to use parental choice to increase diversity: CTIP 1 will include geographic areas comprising about 20 percent of students in the district with the lowest average standardized scores. At elementary schools the preference order will include siblings, SFUSD pre-K attendance-area students, CTIP 1 students, attendance-area students,…
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