This story by Bob Egelko and Jill Tucker ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 18, 2021:
Friends of Lowell Foundation Mentioned:
The Lowell Alumni Association, Friends of Lowell Foundation and the Asian American Legal Foundation sued the district and school board in April, asking the court to overturn the decision and reinstate the former policy.
Attorneys for the school board urged [Judge Ethan] Schulman to leave the new admissions policy in place even if it was adopted improperly. They noted that Lowell had suspended its longtime policy during the 2020-21 school year during the pandemic, and that the new policy had taken effect Oct. 25 with the start of applications for admission in 2022-23. Ordering an immediate change would be unfair to new applicants and cause financial hardship to the district, the attorneys said.
If so, Schulman responded in his ruling, ‘the district and the board have only themselves to blame.’
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