A photo—in which Cienega math teachers wore matching white T-shirts on Halloween stained with red blotches and reading “Problem Solved”—was circulating rapidly online.

Students in crisis move between schools, sometimes across town, sometimes across states. Too often, their records of behavioral concern or intervention do not move with them.

San Diego Unified implemented its much-touted Vision 2020 plan, which sought in part to keep kids in their neighborhood schools, nearly a decade and a half ago. Neighborhood participation rates haven’t budged.