The San Francisco school board is being sued by groups that oppose the move to end merit-based admissions at the city’s elite Lowell High School.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, also names the San Francisco Unified School District and Superintendent Vince Matthews as defendants.
It claims that the board violated California’s open meetings law when it voted in February to use the same lottery-based system it uses to assign students to other district high schools for Lowell.
The lawsuit argues that the school board failed to adequately list the resolution in the meeting agenda, didn’t provide equal time for both sides during the public comment section and didn’t give the public enough time to review the proposal before the vote.
The school board said a lack of diversity and systematic racism justified the change in the admissions process.
The Friends of Lowell Foundation, the Lowell Alumni Association, the San Francisco Taxpayers Association and the Asian American Legal Foundation are listed as plaintiffs in the filing.
This is just one of several lawsuits the embattled board is currently facing. Board Commissioner Alison Collins is suing five of her peers and the school district, after she was stripped of her leadership position due to racially charged tweets. The board and district were also sued this year by the San Francisco city attorney over reopening classrooms for in-person learning.
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