A helpful program thwarted by SFUSD, or...?

Today's San Francisco Chronicle editorializes about a program called College Track, which the editorial says is "having trouble making inroads with the San Francisco Unified School District." The editorial chastises SFUSD for not making College Track's "entry into that city [San Francisco, that is] a little easier."

The editorial gives no details about what the problems are, and I can't find any indication that the Chronicle has previously covered College Track.

College Track's website says its mission is to "help motivated low-income high school students who have the desire but lack the resources and support to attain higher education." College Track opened an office in San Francisco's Bayview District in May 2007, serving "primarily the San Francisco neighborhoods of Bayview Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley/Sunnydale, and Mission/Excelsior."

It's Sunday, but I've sent an e-mail query and will do some reporting on what's going on with this program, what SFUSD is doing or not doing to support it, etc. It's weird that the Chronicle gave this apparently little-known program such a blaze of support and publicity in a high-profile Sunday editorial, while providing so little information on what the problem is. I'll report back.