{"id":439153,"date":"2026-08-21T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:48:38","slug":"school-has-started-for-some-sfusd-families-the-lottery-wait-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439153\/","title":{"rendered":"School has started. For some SFUSD families, the lottery wait goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 18, 2026at3:04pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Elliot Fara has a goal to watch every episode of \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d Much to the chagrin of his mother, Tami, the eighth grader has been making major progress this week from the living room couch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">While Elliot\u2019s friends are engaging in banter and baseball tryouts at Presidio Middle School, he is on the waitlist, hoping a spot opens up for him at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Tami feels she is out of options. The only public school with an open eighth-grade seat is in Visitacion Valley, an hour by bus from their home on 32nd Avenue in the Sunset. Nearby private schools, she says, are full. \u201cAs a parent, I am completely stuck,\u201d she said Tuesday morning. \u201cI have no other options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Elliot\u2019s predicament is a product of the way the San Francisco Unified School District assigns students to schools. Rather than being assigned based on where they live, families in the district tour and rank schools across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 18, 2026at3:04pm Elliot Fara has a goal to watch every episode of \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d Much to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15,101,103,102,44339,104,106,105,15254],"class_list":["post-439153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-education","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-school-wars","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfusd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}