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HARTFORD - The American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Education Sciences, Inc. (LDF), the Center for Children’s Advocacy lawyers who have cooperated and proposed today an agreement with the State of Connecticut For the implementation of complying with a long view of the Supreme Court of the State to remove racial segregation Hartford public schools. The agreement, the latest step in the case of Sheff v. O’Neill, for the first time, the obligation of the State to put in place a comprehensive road map for success, and his efforts to end racial segregation in Hartford, where minority students.

“Today is a turning point in our efforts to ensure that all children in Hartford offer their constitutional right to an integrated system of quality education,” said Dennis Parker, executive director of the ACLU Racial Justice Programs and a lawyer in the case. “For the first time in 12 years that followed, the Supreme Court decided, Connecticut Hartford schools racially separated from the Constitution, the State undertakes to comply with a clear framework to ensure that its constitutional obligations.”
In 1996, the Supreme Court of Connecticut agreed that Hartford’s racially segregated schools of the minority violates the constitutional rights of students on equal education. Even if the Court invited the governor and legislators to improve the integration of the school “at the head of the agenda,” the progress of the integration has been glacial.
An agreement between him and Sheff Connecticut, has made in the year 2003 have brought four years of a plan by which the state, racial segregation in public schools Hartford. But more than a decade after the decision by the state Supreme Court, Hartford schools in the area are still divided by race and class. Although interoperability magnetic circuit schools and other programs in the region, some children, access to better-quality, integrated training opportunities, less than a 10-Hartford students currently residing in the color of An integrated school.

Today, a lot of things when both houses of the Connecticut General Assembly, led to a system that tries to meet the demand of residents Hartford minority students to inclusive education. The State is required to a number of evaluation criteria, to ensure that opportunities for integrated management of training takes time, the ultimate goal being integrated training available to every student who Hopes.

The colonization of the State also requires the establishment of a comprehensive management plan, goals and opportunities to show that the State to achieve these goals - the first time that the State accountable for their actions are clearly Defined for steps to achieve integrated education.

“Nothing less than the future of Hartford children is at stake,” said Parker. “Equal opportunity to quality, integrated education is a fundamental right and, for the first time, there is a structure Claire for the state to follow to ensure that no child is denied this right. ”

Lawyers are in the case of Matthew LDF Colangelo, Larry Parker and Schwartztol the ACLU Racial Justice Program Martha Stein, executive director of the Centre for the Defence of the rights of children and the lawyer cooperating Wesley Horton.

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