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San Francisco Unified School District Board to Vote on Lottery Enrollment System
The district is weighing two neighborhood-school options that would guarantee local placement and redraw attendance boundaries for the 2028-2029 school year.
- The San Francisco Unified School District board voted 5-2 Tuesday to replace the district's controversial lottery system with neighborhood schools, ending years of debate over a system commissioners said caused unpredictability and failed to reduce racial disparities.
- Implemented in 2011, the lottery system faced years of criticism from families who described it as a source of stress, while district leaders sought a replacement after data indicated it failed to reduce socioeconomic segregation.
- SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su said the new model, Option C, assigns students to schools based on home address and "puts the responsibility squarely on the district to make sure that every single neighborhood school is worth choosing."
- Concerns about equity persist, with Commissioner Alida Fisher, who voted no, warning that launching the system before closing resource gaps could negatively affect families in certain parts of the city.
- Final policy adoption is scheduled for April 13, 2027, as officials work to evaluate capacity and redraw attendance boundaries before the new enrollment system launches for the 2028-2029 school year.
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SFUSD to replace school lottery with neighborhood assignments
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Total News Sources11
Leaning Left4Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution57% Left
Bias Distribution
- 57% of the sources lean Left
57% Left
L 57%
C 29%
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