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Irene Lo - Improving Diversity and Equity in San Francisco School Choice - IPAM at UCLA

Presenter
January 26, 2024
Abstract
Recorded 26 January 2024. Irene Lo of Stanford University presents "Improving Diversity and Equity in San Francisco School Choice" at IPAM's Mathematical Foundations for Equity in Transportation Systems Workshop. Abstract: More than 65 years after school segregation was ruled unconstitutional, public schools across the United States are resegregating along racial and socioeconomic lines. Many cities have attempted to disentangle school and neighborhood segregation and improve equitable access using policies for city-wide choice. However, these policies have largely not improved patterns of segregation and inequity. From 2018 to 2020, we worked with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to design a new policy for student assignment system that meets the district’s goals of diversity, predictability, proximity and equity of access. In close collaboration with SFUSD, we informed the design of a new policy that was approved in 2020 for use starting the 2025–26 school year. In this talk, I will discuss our policy design approach, as well as questions it raises about transportation and equity in school systems. Learn more online at: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/mathematical-foundations-for-equity-in-transportation-systems-january-22-26-2024/?tab=overview