SFUSD details six-option student‑assignment redesign, launches citywide outreach

San Francisco Unified School District staff on the meeting presented a timetable and public‑engagement plan to guide a redesign of the district’s student‑assignment system, laying out six options and announcing a series of community conversations and five citywide town‑hall meetings between November and January.

Miss O'Keefe, a district staff member leading the presentation, said the board will use findings from two concurrent research efforts — a qualitative study of 24 randomly selected schools funded by the Council of the Great City Schools and the Legal Defense Fund, and a quantitative analysis by Stanford’s education team under Linda Darling Hammond — together with community feedback to draft a new student assignment policy. “We want to make sure that everyone has a deep understanding of the board’s priorities and the options the board is considering,” she said.

Why it matters: the district’s current assignment approach includes citywide programs and designated assignments; staff said about one‑third of schools currently lack attendance boundaries and the redesign could redraw boundaries, change lottery preferences and create…