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Years after a Landmark Court Decision, Connecticut's Solution to School Segregation Shows Promise: Can It Inform Action in Baltimore? The Abell Report. Volume 26, No.5
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Eaton, Susan – Abell Foundation, 2013
As of summer 2012, there are 31 interdistrict magnet schools in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut, including those at The Learning Corridor (a 14-acre compound with roughly 1,570 students in attendance among an elementary, middle, and two high schools), enrolling about 13,000 students and supported by a mix of state, local, and…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Equal Education, Public Schools, School Desegregation
Connecticut State Supreme Court Rules in Sheff v. O'Neill.
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Delaney, Stephen B. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1996
In the case of Sheff v. O'Neill the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the Hartford school system and its suburbs were unconstitutionally segregated. This article provides background, the significant findings, the court's rationale, and dissenting opinions, along with a discussion of the state's probable responses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Educational History
Affirmative School Integration: Efforts to Overcome De Facto Segregation in Urban Schools.
Hill, Roscoe, Ed.; Feeley, Malcolm, Ed. – 1968
This book contains abbreviated accounts of eight community case studies and various reviews of a cluster of recent studies relating to race and education. The foreword discusses three phases of school integration, and the introductory chapter relates law, violence, and civil rights. The eight case studies on Evanston, Berkeley, New Haven,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Community Characteristics, Community Study, De Facto Segregation