KQED Radio
KQED Newssee more
Latest Newscasts:KQEDNPR
Player Sponsored By
upper waypoint

Changes Could Be Coming to San Francisco's School Lottery System

52:27
at
Save ArticleSave Article
Failed to save article

Please try again

Female High School Teacher Teaching Class (Getty Images)

Next week, two members of the San Francisco Board of Education will introduce a resolution to scrap the city’s current lottery system in favor of a more predictable and transparent system. The resolution’s sponsors say change is needed to reduce racial and socioeconomic segregation and to make the system easier for parents to navigate. We’ll hear about the proposed changes and get your reactions. How you would change the district’s school assignment system?

Related Links:

Guests:

Katrina Schwartz, staff writer for MindShift, KQED's education blog

Matt Haney, commissioner, San Francisco Board of Education

Sponsored

lower waypoint
next waypoint
NPR's Sarah McCammon on Leaving the Evangelical ChurchKQED Youth Takeover: We’re Getting a WNBA TeamRainn Wilson from ‘The Office’ on Why We Need a Spiritual RevolutionForum From the Archives: Remembering Glide Memorial's Cecil WilliamsErik Aadahl on the Power of Sound in FilmKQED Youth Takeover: How Can San Jose Schools Create Safer Campuses?Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Major Homelessness CasePercival Everett’s Novel “James” Recenters the Story of Huck FinnHave We Entered Into a New Cold War Era?KQED Youth Takeover: How Social Media is Changing Political Advertising