Lottery Admissions To SF's Top High School To Stay In Place

San Francisco CA

05 December, 2021

3:41 PM

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By Thomas Peele EdSource SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A lottery system for admission to San Francisco's top high school will likely stay in place for another year despite a judge's ruling that the city's school board violated state law when it ditched competitive admissions, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Superintendent Vince Mathews told the newspaper that there is not enough time to return to merit-based admissions to Lowell High School for the next academic year. "We recognize that in light of the recent court decision, families are anxious to know what the admissions process will be for applying to Lowell for the 2022-2023 school year," he said in a statement. "It would be logistically impossible to establish and implement any selective admission criteria prior to the application of Feb. 4 so I am recommending we maintain our current admissions practice at Lowell for the upcoming year." The San Francisco School Board voted in February to end competitive admission at Lowell, causing an uproar. Parents sued. Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman ruled in November that the board "clearly failed" to follow the state's open meetings law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, when it voted to make the change. Copyright 2021 by Bay City News, Inc. — Republication, Rebroadcast or any other Reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.