New plan on school selection, but still discontent

02-22-2010

By Jesse McKinley/New York Times

After years of complaints from parents, the San Francisco Unified School District has just taken a serious step toward revamping its well-meaning but labyrinthine student-assignment system, which decides the educational homes for tens of thousands of children. A new plan could affect the makeup of San Francisco schools. Parents took their children to McKinley Elementary on Wednesday. A student being dropped off at McKinley Elementary, which is in the Castro district and near Duboce Park. The current system — designed to meet the terms of a settlement in a long-fought federal desegregation case — involves a complicated computer algorithm that creates student “profiles,” using various economic and educational factors, with the aim of sending students of different backgrounds to the same schools. (more...)

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