I have immediate family in San Francisco and am aware of its stupid educational policies.
One of the kids turned school age this year and was assigned to a school across town in a very bad area - even though there is an elementary school across the damn street.
SF schools assign kids according to race, not area. Fortunately, family was well enough off to put kid in a private school much closer to home.
***Fortunately, family was well enough off to put kid in a private school much closer to home.***
A lot of Southerners did the same back in the 1960s. The desegregation of the Northern schools was much harder because of protests.