To deepen public understanding of the options being explored by the Board, and to provide opportunities for diverse community members to share feedback with the Board, SFUSD and partner organizations conducted several small community conversations as well as larger town hall meetings between November 2009 and January 2010.
In addition to scheduled meetings, there was an online survey containing the same questions as those explored at community forums.
Feedback from the Town Hall meetings, the online survey, and the smaller community conversations, was shared with the Board and public on February 2, 2010:
Report of Findings from Community Conversations on Student Assignment
(February 2010)
PAC and PPS: Recommendations for Changing the Student Assignment System
Recomendaciones para el Cambio de Sistema de Asignación de Estudiantes
學生派位社區對談會調查結果報告
2010年2月
PAC and PPS: Findings from Community Conversations
(Feb 2010)
Informe de los Hallazgos a partir de Audiencias Comunitarias
acerca de la Asignación de Estudiantes
Febrero 2010
學生派位社區對談會調查結果報告
2010年2月
PAC and PPS: Findings and Recommendations from Community Conversations about Changing the Student Assignment System
(June 2009)
Report on Student Assignment June 09 - Chinese
Report on Student Assignment June 09 - Spanish
During the 2008-2009 school year, the Parent Advisory Council and Parents for Public Schools closely followed the Board of Education’s process to change the student assignment system. They conducted community conversations with over 270 people, most of them parents of students in the SFUSD. Participants reflected a broad diversity of families across differences in language, ethnicity, geography, culture, types of schools their children attend, and socioeconomic background.
Report from PPS, the PAC, and the San Francisco Education Fund: Recommendations from the SERR Initiative
(April 2007)
SERR: Student Enrollment, Recruitment and Retention: Community Conversations about San Francisco Public Schools
(March 2007)
From September 2006 to February 2007, the San Francisco Unified School District, the San Francisco Education Fund, Parents for Public Schools and the Parent Advisory Council led a community engagement effort to better understand diverse community members’ aspirations for SFUSD schools; create shared knowledge about key issues facing the District; and involve multiple members of the community in addressing issues facing the District. Over 900 parents, students and community members participated in these conversations.
PAC: The San Francisco Board of Education Parent Advisory Council’s Findings from Community Outreach
(May 2006)
The Parent Advisory Council conducted an outreach campaign from January to May of 2006 to hear from communities who do not usually participate in education policy debates. PAC spoke with approximately 200 parents whose children attend SFUSD schools. Participants were primarily Latino, Chinese and African-American.
CACSA: The Community Advisory Committee on Student Assignment
(February 2005)
In anticipation of the expiration of long-standing federal court supervision of SFUSD’s student assignment plan, this CAC was formed in April 2004 to study then-current processes and recommend new options for consideration by the Superintendent and Board of Education. Between April 2004 and January 2005, this fourteen-member committee analyzed the system in place at the time, gathered community input through interactive focus groups, developed three techniques for allocating seats to oversubscribed schools, and made several general recommendations regarding improvements to the student assignment process.
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