Talk:Sausalito Marin City School District

Experiment
This article was created using only information from one page at the National Center for Education Statistics as an experiment. The assumption being tested is that a reasonable stub or start-class article can be created using this single reliable source. The hope is that districts and high schools (at least) could be added automatically using this database, just as all Census designated places were added at once. The next step is to improve the article using only the District's official website. The final step (for me) is to improve it to Good Article quality using online sources only. I hope that a better infobox template can be created specifically for the information available from NCES, but I'm not up to that, yet.

Please feel free to discuss both the article and the experiment.--Hjal 09:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Experiment re NCES data, phase II
I have loaded all of the NCES data on the three schools in the Sausalito Marin City School District into the District article. It looks klunky, in part becasue I am limiting this edition to what's in the NCES database, and in part becasue I'm setting up the page to break the indivudal schools out into separate articles after searching the district's own website for more information. As a result, the page looks overloaded with infoboxes and geolinks, plus I ended up with coordinates for the two different campuses overlaying each other at the top of the page. I'm sure that some of the NCES information would look better in tabular form, but I don't have much experience with making tables yet, and I don't know what a bot could be capable of, so I'm keeping it simple. I left a couple of terms from NCES in, even though they aren't well known—I plan to add some discussions of terminology at the NCES article, so the redlinks will go away. I left in the NCES and California ID numbers for the District and its schools, but I'm not sure that they will be useful here. One thing that is obvious, is that this article would not fit into a typical locality article—it's already too long for that in its plain vanilla format. Besides, it would have to go into two articles—Sausalito and Marin City. With a district article like this set up, I can put a paragraph about education in each of the town articles with a link to the District article or the appropriate schoo articles.

Please review and comment, here or at Schools.--Hjal 07:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Today, March 5 by PST, a prod template was clumsily added to this article. I just removed it. Please see User talk:Apterygiformesk for my discussion, if you are interested.

I don't know where to ad this but
I am trying to find out what happened to the actual MLK elementary school located on the north end of Sausalito in the early 1980s. I went there in the late 1990s and it appeared to have been converted to an office complex but the original buildings were still there. I seem to remember that although most of the students were poor, the school itself was comparatively well funded due to the local tax base being relatively high. Violence and crime were issues at MLK elementary in the late 1970s and 1980s when I was there, but realize this was in a backdrop of an otherwise very forward thinking school program with numerous opportunities in art, sports and creative programs that many high schools don't have. While a slight majority of students at the time were black, the school had a woman I think named Alice Goss who ran an Afrocentric history curriculum as the main focus of the 7th and 8th grade social studies program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.222.193 (talk) 18:24, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Boundary map
See: http://www.smcsd.org/files/SMCSD%20district%20boundaries.pdf WhisperToMe (talk) 10:57, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Segregation findings and settlement
At this writing (August 9, 2019) this article appears far out of date. The History/Current status section goes only as far as 2016. Some of the information it presents is inconsistent - for example, the first paragraph of "The Sausalito Marin City School Board" section refers to "he current superintendent, Mr. Van Zant" while the next paragraph says "The former superintendent, Steve Van Zant." Other sources (see below) spell his surname Van Zandt.

I came to this Wikipedia article looking for clarification of statements in a San Francisco Chronicle article published online today, "School district in Marin County agrees to desegregate in settlement with state." The article says in part:

'In a 2016 report, the state’s Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team found that leaders of the charter school had “significant control” over most of the school district’s board members, causing a “clearly biased financial arrangement.”' The Chronicle article does not explain what form this "significant control" took, and that is what sent me to the Wikipedia article.

The article's main focus is on a finding by the office of the California Attorney General, Javier Becerra, that the school district had deliberately created a racially segregated school system in its 2013 redistricting, and on the settlement today between the Attorney General and the school district that includes a desegregation plan and remedial actions on behalf of students who were impacted by segregation.

The article also goes into some depth on the issues that led to Mr. Van Zandt's resignation from the school district and his later guilty plea on charges related to a previous position in another school system.

I hope someone more familiar than I am with these issues will undertake to correct and update this article, including more detail than in today's Chronicle article. Billfalls (talk) 21:34, 9 August 2019 (UTC)