The Sacramento City Unified School District will end its screening exams for admission to two desirable elementary schools after California Attorney General Rob Bonta found the tool discriminated against students with disabilities.
Prospective kindergarten and first grade students will no longer be subject to a screening requirement for enrollment at Phoebe Hearst and Camellia Basic elementary schools. Both schools will hold open enrollment lotteries not dictated by neighborhood boundaries, the district said in a Friday news release.
Priority enrollment will still be given to families with an older sibling who attends the schools and students who have a guardian working at the schools, but otherwise students who apply will be admitted via lottery…