"After a decade-long debate regarding student assignment and the reality that San Francisco’s public schools remain segregated by race and income, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is just a few months away from implementing a new student assignment system. By all indications it will not look extremely different from what currently exists, with some level of a lottery system for placement of students and a condensed number of variables for how students are placed in requested schools, such as academic achievement, language ability and socio economic status. This conservative approach will not achieve the Board of Education’s request for the new student assignment system to be a catalyst to close the achievement gap between ethnic groups attending public schools."