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SFUSD staff present three student-assignment options aimed at reducing racial isolation
Summary
District staff proposed three approaches to redesign student assignment — attendance-area assignment, a controlled-choice system, and zone-based systems — and showed preliminary simulations that reduced the number of schools with extreme racial concentration from 15 to 11; the board asked for more analysis on transportation, program placement and community outreach.
San Francisco Unified School District staff presented a set of options to redesign the district’s student-assignment system, saying the current approach has not achieved the district’s long-term desegregation goals and that a redesigned system must support the board’s equity-centered strategic plan.
Orla O'Keefe, who is directing the committee’s work, told the ad hoc student-assignment committee that the district’s 2001 citywide choice system — which uses lotteries, weight pools, open enrollment and appeals — has left about a quarter of schools with more than 60 percent students of a single racial or ethnic group and persistent achievement gaps for African American, Latino and Samoan students. O'Keefe said staff synthesized last year’s research, ran preliminary boundary simulations, and developed three options for deeper analysis.
Staff analyst Jean Gobellet described two families of geographic approaches: attendance-area boundaries (school-level catchment areas with feeder patterns) and zones (larger boundaries that enclose multiple…
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