“The district stopped assigning students by ethnicity in 2001, with schools slowly resegregating largely along residential demographics in the years since. Although the new student assignment options on the table would do little to change those patterns, the systems could be adjusted to give more or less weight to where a student lives. But real desegregation would take a larger effort. “To achieve more diversity through student assignment alone, the SFUSD would have to assign students to schools they did not request and to schools that are far from where they live,” district officials said in a public presentation before the school board’s Committee of the Whole last week. Instead, district officials have been working to desegregate schools through programs like language immersion, voluntarily drawing diverse families from across the city.“