According to California s School Dashboard, about 50% of the students at Lowell are Asian, 18% are white, 12% are Latino, and 2% are African American.
But, there are ongoing questions and concerns about whether moving Lowell to the lottery system will end or address racism at the school.
VIDEO: Emotional public response to resolution to permanently end merit-based admission at Lowell High
At Tuesday s Board of Education meeting, both supporters and critics of the resolution were emotional about the need to end racism at the school.
Commissioner Boggess, like many people during public comment wanted to delay the vote, but other board and community members felt the issue of equity and the safety of black students at the school has been delayed long enough.
S.F. school board strips Lowell High of its merit-based admissions system
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The Lowell Black Student Union hold a press conference to speak out against the recent racist attacks on the Lowell community on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 in San Francisco, California.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
One of the top-performing public high schools in the country will no longer admit students based on academic performance, ending more than a century of merit-based admissions.
More than seven hours into a marathon meeting Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education voted 5-2 to use the same lottery-based system to assign students to Lowell High as other district high schools instead of maintaining the previous system that used test scores and grades.
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The merit-based admissions policy at one of the country s top public high schools San Francisco s Lowell High School has been called unfair and unjust in a controversial new resolution to end its selective process. A particularly sharp critique of the school s current policy came from Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins, who called it racist.
If passed, a resolution will change the admissions policy for an elite San Francisco high school. One school board member called the policy racist.
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During a San Francisco Board of Education public meeting on October 13, 2020, Collins said, When we talk about merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing.those are racist systems.… You can t talk about social justice, and then say you want to have a selective school that keeps certain kids out from the neighborhoods that y
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