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SFUSD staff narrows student‑assignment choices to two frameworks using a new 'CTIP' integration preference
Summary
District staff proposed two high‑level frameworks to the board: a variant of an academic‑diversity lottery and a local‑preference model that includes a Census Tract Integration Preference (CTIP) intended to encourage more integrated applicant pools while preserving some parent choice; staff outlined trade‑offs and next procedural steps.
San Francisco Unified School District staff presented a narrowed policy framework that reduces six earlier student‑assignment options to two high‑level approaches and introduced a new tool called the Census Tract Integration Preference, or CTIP.
Orla O'Keefe, senior staff leading the redesign, told the school board that CTIP would classify census tracts by average achievement and give preference in the choice process to students from demographically different tracts to encourage integrated applicant pools. "For tonight we're calling the Census Tract Integration Preference CTIP," O'Keefe said,…
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