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Board adopts modest changes to student-assignment method after heated debate over race and poverty factors
Summary
The board approved modifications to the student-assignment diversity index for the 2008 enrollment cycle—removing 'mother’s education background', adding outreach and verification steps, adding a priority for site-based staff and proposing an 'extreme poverty' indicator (public housing/CalWORKs); a separate amendment to add ethnicity as an index factor failed after extended debate.
After extended discussion and public comment, the San Francisco Board of Education on Sept. 12 adopted a set of modest modifications to the district’s student-assignment method for the 2008 school year.
The board directed staff to eliminate “mother’s education background” from the diversity index lottery and to increase efforts to verify home addresses to reduce fraud; it also directed expanded outreach and recruitment particularly in under-enrolled communities. In addition, the board approved a newly proposed priority in the appeals process for…
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