OPINION: People may debate the best admissions policy for Lowell. But the 1993 school choice law doesn’t prevent Lowell from using academic criteria.
, which Assemblymember Dede Alpert introduced in March 1993 amid a debate about school choice, at a time when most public school students were assigned to their neighborhood schools., was “to give parents the opportunity to select schools in the district in which they reside that best fit their children’s educational needs in the public school environment.”
Nothing in that law, the legislative history or contemporaneous news stories says anything about ending academic admissions at schools like Lowell. Dawson’s advisory noted Alpert’s view that, far from denying schools like Lowell the authority to use academic criteria, the “random” and “unbiased” admissions rule served to preserve that authority, explaining:
Now, some argue Lowell isn’t a “specialized school” under this law because it wasn’t established as a “specialized high school” under Education Code Sections 58800 and 58801.
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