A Summary of School Selection, Student Assignment, and Enrollment in a School with a Open Enrollment and Mandatory Choice Policies

This brief summarizes a study by Matt Kasman that examines the open enrollment policies of the San Francisco Unified School District. Open enrollment programs aim to increase racial integration in schools by allowing parents to choose their children’s schools as opposed to automatic assignment to a neighborhood school. This study, a series of three papers, explores how parent choice, school assignment, and school enrollment policies hinder or facilitate school desegregation.