Controlled Choice Student Assignment Plan is adopted.

Created by consultants Michael Alves and Charles Willie and approved by Judge W. Arthur Garrity, the plan replaces the 15-year-old Phase II plan, divides the city into three K to 8 zones and a city-wide high school zone, and requires each school to reflect the use racial makeup of the their zone. It allows parents to choose several schools in rank order within the zones to which they would prefer their children to be assigned, while employing a lottery to assign students to the highest-choice school in which a seat is available to them. The plan is implemented in September 1989.