This brief summarizes The History of the K-5 Student Assignment System by Kyle Beckham and Leah Gordon. The researchers analyzed over two thousand pages of San Francisco Unified School District documents related to student assignment policies, dated from the late 1990’s through 2014. The findings were presented to the San Francisco Board of Education in 2016, as it began re-thinking the District’s student assignment policies. The researchers believed that knowing the history of any given issue, and what has been tried before is an indispensable piece of making fully informed policy choices.
